Synonyms of perverse

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adjective

1

as in irritable

easily irritated or annoyed

how can you be so cheerful one day, and so perverse the next?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• irritable
• fiery
• peevish
• petulant
• irascible
• waspish
• passionate
• cross
• crotchety
• pettish
• grouchy
• testy
• snarky
• choleric
• out of humor
• snappish
• out of sorts
• grumpy
• raspy
• short
• sensitive
• stuffy
• crabby
• disagreeable
• prickly
• contentious
• ratty
• snippy
• cranky
• bilious
• cantankerous
• dyspeptic
• short-tempered
• quick-tempered
• snippety
• bellicose
• ornery
• querulous
• curmudgeonly
• argumentative
• belligerent
• combative
• pugnacious
• fretful
• snarly
• surly
• truculent
• snappy
• bearish
• quarrelsome
• fractious
• ill-humored
• ill-natured
• cross-grained
• off-color
• sullen
• disputatious
• sulky
• off-colored
• tetchy
• ill-tempered
• pouty
• scrappy
• touchy
• huffy
• hot-blooded
• thin-skinned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• friendly
• genial
• sweet
• affable
• outgoing
• amiable
• cordial
• agreeable
• gregarious
• companionable
• sociable
• extroverted
• good-natured
• extraverted
• carefree
• easygoing
• relaxed
• patient
• well-disposed
• tolerant
• stoical
• understanding
• stoic
• good-tempered
• obliging
• uncomplaining
• forbearing
• long-suffering
• happy-go-lucky

2

as in corrupt

having or showing lowered moral character or standards

social conservatives who believe that Hollywood is a perverse world that exerts an unhealthy influence on the young

Synonyms & Similar Words

• corrupt
• degraded
• sick
• perverted
• decadent
• depraved
• crooked
• warped
• degenerate
• unwholesome
• dissolute
• debased
• debauched
• loose
• vicious
• libertine
• dishonest
• rakish
• unclean
• immoral
• demoralized
• spoiled
• wicked
• reprobate
• evil
• dissipated
• bad
• unscrupulous
• unprincipled
• unethical
• rakehell
• rakehelly
• bent
• sinful
• cutthroat
• jackleg
• iniquitous
• nefarious
• contaminated
• tainted
• miscreant

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pure
• ethical
• moral
• incorruptible
• honest
• good
• uncorrupted
• uncorrupt
• principled
• virtuous
• righteous

3

as in stubborn

sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

a fact so self-evident that not even the most perverse of opponents could deny it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stubborn
• adamant
• wilful
• obsessive
• steadfast
• unrelenting
• uncompromising
• hardened
• willful
• intransigent
• mulish
• implacable
• obstinate
• obdurate
• unbending
• inflexible
• hard
• pertinacious
• unyielding
• strict
• immovable
• bullheaded
• opinionated
• adamantine
• dogged
• ossified
• persistent
• hardheaded
• headstrong
• pigheaded
• relentless
• self-willed
• hard-nosed
• determined
• pat
• wrongheaded
• stiff-necked
• deaf to reason
• inconvincible
• inexorable
• wayward
• rigid
• severe
• self-opinionated
• contrary
• defiant
• unflinching
• stern
• tenacious
• hard-line
• iron
• narrow-minded
• anal-retentive
• disobedient
• resolved
• cantankerous
• hidebound
• ungovernable
• intractable
• uncooperative
• single-minded
• unmanageable
• mutinous
• insubordinate
• contumacious
• recalcitrant
• unruly
• bloody-minded
• firm
• hell-bent
• froward
• refractory
• exacting
• stouthearted
• insurgent
• hard-shell
• demanding
• inveterate
• invincible
• unconquerable
• set
• unregenerate
• indomitable
• hard-shelled
• confirmed
• cussed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• agreeable
• flexible
• amenable
• compliant
• complying
• acquiescent
• pliant
• pliable
• yielding
• obedient
• docile
• submissive
• tractable
• receptive
• reasonable
• willing
• accepting
• responsive
• placable
• relenting
• manageable
• slavish
• temperate
• subservient
• persuadable
• governable

4

as in inappropriate

not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation

a convicted criminal seemed like a perverse choice for a bank employee

Synonyms & Similar Words

• inappropriate
• improper
• unsuitable
• wrong
• incorrect
• unhappy
• unfit
• unfortunate
• unseemly
• irrelevant
• incongruous
• indecorous
• infelicitous
• unbecoming
• untoward
• inept
• unacceptable
• out of place
• graceless
• out of the way
• inconsistent
• inapt
• bad
• amiss
• inapposite
• naughty
• awkward
• unapt
• malapropos
• sinful
• untimely
• unseasonable
• immaterial
• inopportune
• extraneous
• incompatible
• inapplicable
• forbidden
• uncongenial
• mismatched
• irrelative
• unsatisfactory
• censurable
• blameworthy
• prohibited
• blamable
• ungraceful
• barred
• proscribed
• gauche
• disallowed
• outlawed
• misbecoming
• banned
• interdicted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• appropriate
• proper
• suitable
• correct
• right
• fitting
• felicitous
• happy
• relative
• relevant
• becoming
• meet
• genteel
• timely
• decorous
• applicable
• fortunate
• fit
• opportune
• congenial
• apt
• apposite
• seasonable
• harmonious
• pointed
• permitted
• material
• compatible
• seemly
• befitting
• acceptable
• satisfactory
• pat
• adequate
• authorized
• germane
• endorsed
• fine
• sanctioned
• approved
• all right
• tolerable
• decent
• respectable
• kosher
• apropos
• exemplary
• okay
• promoted
• licensed
• supported
• allowed
• commendable
• creditable
• OK
• passable
• encouraged
• blameless
• balanced
• irreproachable
• consonant
• abetted
• indorsed
• congruous
• companionate

perversity

2 of 2

noun

as in irritability

readiness to show annoyance or impatience

a certain coworker's habitual perversity makes him unpleasant to be around

Synonyms & Similar Words

• irritability
• irritableness
• aggression
• perverseness
• aggressiveness
• sensitivity
• indignation
• hostility
• petulance
• anger
• crossness
• peevishness
• irascibility
• crankiness
• exasperation
• testiness
• grouchiness
• wrath
• grumpiness
• biliousness
• huffiness
• rage
• choler
• pettishness
• fury
• crotchetiness
• waspishness
• rudeness
• disagreeableness
• irascibleness
• contrariness
• orneriness
• pugnacity
• cantankerousness
• fretfulness
• combativeness
• sulkiness
• belligerence
• fight
• contentiousness
• dyspepsia
• surliness
• truculence
• pugnaciousness
• bellicosity
• belligerency
• crustiness
• feistiness
• querulousness
• passion
• curmudgeonliness
• antagonism
• touchiness
• scrappiness
• antipathy
• supersensitivity
• unfriendliness
• fierceness
• animosity
• truculency
• quarrelsomeness
• fussiness
• disputatiousness
• jaundice
• rancor
• oversensitiveness
• spleen
• hot-bloodedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• understanding
• tolerance
• patience
• forbearance
• long-suffering
• friendliness
• geniality
• sociability
• affability
• cordiality
• agreeableness
• amicability
• amiability
• amiableness
• tranquillity
• amenity
• coolness
• tranquility
• gentleness
• serenity
• good-naturedness
• mildness
• kindliness
• good-humoredness
• good-temperedness
• easygoingness