Antonyms for perverse
pərˈvɜrsper·verse

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1. perverse

   Perverse (Latin perversus, turned the wrong way) signifies wilfully wrong or erring, unreasonably set against right, reason, or authority. The stubborn or obstinate person will not do what another desires or requires; the perverse person will do anything contrary to what is desired or required of him. The petulant person frets, but may comply; the perverse individual may be smooth or silent, but is wilfully intractable. Wayward refers to a perverse disregard of morality and duty; froward is practically obsolete; untoward is rarely heard except in certain phrases; as, untoward circumstances. Compare OBSTINATE.

   Antonyms:
   accommodating, amenable, complaisant, compliant, genial, governable, kind, obliging

   Synonyms:
   contrary, factious, fractious, froward, intractable, obstinate, petulant, stubborn, ungovernable, untoward, wayward, wilful

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1. perverse

   Antonyms:
   docile, ductile, amenable, governable, complacent, accommodating, pleasant, obliging

   Synonyms:
   froward, untoward, stubborn, fractious, wayward, unmanageable, intractable, crochety

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1. perverseadjective

   marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict

   "took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans"

   Antonyms:
   neutral, obedient, positive, incorrupt

   Synonyms:
   depraved, perverted, reprobate, obstinate, contrary, wayward

2. contrary, obstinate, perverse, waywardadjective

   resistant to guidance or discipline

   "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

   Antonyms:
   positive, incorrupt, obedient, neutral

   Synonyms:
   depraved, obdurate, unrepentant, obstinate, wayward, perverted, reprobate, stubborn, cussed, unregenerate, contrary, adverse

3. depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobateadjective

   deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good

   "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

   Antonyms:
   positive, obedient, neutral, incorrupt

   Synonyms:
   depraved, misrepresented, obstinate, wayward, perverted, twisted, kinky, contrary, reprobate, distorted

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1. perverseadjective

   Antonyms:
   obedient

   Synonyms:
   perverted, misdirected, erring, depraved, vitiated, intractable, obstinate, stubborn, contrary, headstrong, indocile

How to use perverse in a sentence?

1. Richard Leakey:

   In a perverse way, because that bridge ... is an example that an African nation that cares for wildlife and has gone out of its way to consider the interests of wildlife, it will actually attract people who want to see it.

2. Joe Berlinger:

   It was not an easy decision on their part and they had to think long and hard about it, and I think some of them still feel ambivalent about participating… One of the results of… ‘In Cold Blood' is that we have a lot of sympathy for the killers, because of how Truman Capote told that story… not excusing them for what they did, but seeing them as three-dimensional human beings. ..[and] all of these films kind of celebrate the killers in a perverse way…. the family felt very violated by the experience. They felt violated by ‘In Cold Blood.’.

3. Thomas Mann:

   Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

4. Warren Buffett:

   There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

5. Stephen Jay Gould:

   In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

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