Reverse Dictionary: PERVERSE

ADJECTIVES
1225 — THWART-OVER thwarting or obstructing;  cross, contrary, perverse, self-willed → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1386 — ARSEWARD contrary to what is usual, expected, or logical; back-to-front, muddled, perverse →
1386 — WRAW peevish, crabbed, perverse → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1386 — WRAWFUL peevish, crabbed, ill-tempered; perverse, contrarious → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1440 — AWK of persons or things: awkward, untoward, perverse → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1530 — AWKWARD of persons or animals: perverse, obstinate, difficult to manage, bad-tempered → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1540 — WRABBED perverse; difficult to manage → obs.
1556 — AWKLY untoward, perverse → obs.
1560 — SINISTROUS erroneous, perverse, heretical → obs.
1582 — KIM-KAM obs.crooked, awkward, perverse, contrary → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1583 — BACKWARD perverse, unfavourable → obs.
1600 — CAM perverse, obstinate, cross → Eng. dial.
1603 — CONTUMACIOUS obstinately resisting authority; stubbornly perverse, insubordinate, rebellious
1606 — CAMSHOCH perverse → Sc.
1624 — REFRACTARIOUS obstinate, stubborn, perverse → obs.
1628 — ARSEY-VERSEY — ARSIE-VARSIE — ARSEY-VARSEY — ARSY-VARSY — ARSY-VERSY back-to-front, muddled perverse → sl.
1635 — PREVARICATE deviating; perverse → obs.
1647 — CROSS-GRAINED given to opposition, contrarious; intractable; perverse, refractory
1655 — AWKY untoward, perverse, difficult, awkward, clumsy → obs.
1686 — ARSEWARDS perverse, obstinate; unwilling → Eng. dial.
1727 — TETRICOUS sour in countenance; austere, severe, harsh, crabbed, perverse, morose → obs.
1737 — THRAWN perverse, obstinate; cross-grained; rebellious; morally wrong → Sc.
1746 — CAMMED crooked, perverse → Eng. dial.
.M18 — CONTRARY characterized by self-willed or refractory opposition; perverse → colloq.
1769 — CAMSTAIRY — CAMSTEERY — CAMSTERRY — CAMSTRARIE — KAMSTEERY perverse, unmanageable, riotous; given to quarrelling; excitable → Sc.
1772 — CANTANKEROUS showing an ill-natured disposition; ill-conditioned and quarrelsome, perverse, cross-grained
1776 — CRABBY bad-tempered, cross-grained, perverse, fractious, peevish, morose
1795 — THRAWN-HEADED perverse → Sc.
1796 — THRAWART perverse, stubborn, ill-tempered, peevish; unwilling, reluctant → Sc.
1808 — TOP-THRAWN headstrong, perverse, obstinate, wrong-headed → Sc.
1823 — THRAWN-NATURED perverse → Sc.
1824 — ILL-GATED badly behaved, having bad habits, perverse → Sc.
1825 — CAMSTROUDGEOUS wild, unmanageable; obstinate, perverse → Sc.
1825 — UNBIDDABLE perverse, obstinate, intractable, not to be advised → Sc.
1828 — ILL-DONE wrong, ill-behaved, perverse, mischievous, ill-advised → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1833 — HOOKY-CROOKY not straightforward, perverse, dishonest
1844 — GAMSTERRIE perverse, insubordinate, unmanageable, unruly → Sc.
1846 — MAGGOTTY capricious, crotchety, contrary, perverse → Sc.
1856 — CROOKED AS AN IZZARD deformed in person; perverse in disposition → Eng. dial.
1864 — OBLIQUITOUS unable to distinguish between right and wrong; morally or mentally perverse
1866 — ILL-BISTED bad-tempered, cross, perverse, wicked → Sc.
1866 — ILL-BISTEN bad-tempered, cross, perverse, wicked → Sc.
1866 — MAGGATIVOUS capricious, crotchety, contrary, perverse → Sc.
1866 — MAGGOTIVE capricious, crotchety, contrary, perverse → Sc.
1872 — THIRTINGILL perverse, wrong-headed → Eng. dial.
1887 — CONTRARISOME contrary, perverse, wilful → Amer. dial.
1889 — BACKFOREMOST perverse, wrong-headed
1897 — ILL-VAMD unpleasant, disagreeable in manner or appearance, or in taste or smell; of evil presence or influence, malignant; perverse → Sc.
1897 — VACENTRARY — VASSENTARY subject to fits; contrary, perverse → Eng. dial.
..E20 — GODDAM perverse, annoying → colloq.
1904 — BACK-ENDED perverse; arsy-versy → Amer. dial.
1905 — THRAWN-MUGGENT perverse → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
1905 — THREFT reluctant, unwilling; perverse → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — UNCOSOME awkwardly or perversely disposed → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 — BOOL-HORNED perverse, headstrong → Sc. (Bk.)
1923 — ARSE ABOUT FACE contrary to what is usually, expected or logical; confused, muddled perverse → UK sl.
1924 — CONTRARIOUS contrary, perverse, wilful → Amer. dial.
1929 — ILL-BELKIFOO perverse, uncompliant, averse to control → Sc.
1929 — ILL-BENYIED perverse, ill-disposed → Sc.
1931 — ILLWHINNERED perverse, mean-minded, malevolent → Sc.
1935 — ASS-BACKWARDS back-to-front, muddled perverse → sl.
1935 — BLOODY-MINDED uncooperative, stubborn; cantankerous; perverse, contrary
1940 — CONTRARY AS THE DEVIL’S OFF-HORSE perverse, uncooperative, stubborn, obstinate → Amer. dial.
1945 — CROTCHICAL cross, perverse, peevish → US Western sl. (Bk.)
1952 — ASS-BACKWARD back-to-front, muddled perverse → sl.
1958 — ILL-SPUN wicked, perverse → Sc.
1961 — CRAB perverse; ill-humoured, mean, cross → UK sl.
2007 — BACK-ASSED perverse; clumsy → US sl. (Bk.)

ADVERBS
1440 — AWKLY perversely, untowardly → obs.
1539 — ARSY-VARSY — ARSY-VERSY back to front, upside down; perversely → UK
1548 — SINISTRALLY in a sinister manner; perversely; wrongly → obs.
1581 — SINISTROUSLY in an erroneous manner; incorrectly, wrongly, perversely; awkwardly
1586 — BACKWARDLY perversely → obs.
1594 — CROSSWISE in a way opposed to the direct or right; perversely, wrongly
1603 — KIM-KAM crookedly, awry; in a wayward, perverse, or contrary way → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1750 — CAMMED perversely, crookedly → Eng. dial.

NOUNS
1420 — CONTUMACITY stubborn perverseness
1422 — OBLIQUITY divergence from moral rectitude, sound thinking, or right practice; moral or mental perversity or aberration; a delinquency, a fault, an error
1489 — ADVERSITY contrariness of nature; perversity → obs.
1587 — AWKNESS wrongness, irrationality, perversity, untowardness, awkwardness, ineptitude → obs.
1647 — SINISTERITY sinister character; perversity; dishonesty → obs.
1674 — AWKWARDNESS untowardness, perversity; perverseness, obstinacy, impracticability → obs.
1788 — THROW opposition; a fit of perversity or ill-humour; a quarrel, controversy → Sc.
1825 — CANTANKER cantankerousness; an ill-natured, quarrelsome, perverse, or cross-grained disposition → obs.
1835 — CAMSTRARINESS obstinacy, perversity → Sc.
1838 — VISK a warped or perverse mood or disposition → Sc.
1859 — GALLOWSNESS mischief, perversity → Eng. dial.
1864 — CAMSTEERINESS perversity, obstinacy → Sc.
1867 — AWVISHNESS — HAWVISHNESS disagreeable behaviour, perversity → Eng. dial.
1867 disagreeable behaviour, perversity → Eng. dial.
1898 — AWKWARDNESS perverseness, obstinacy, impracticability → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — AWKWARDS perverseness, obstinacy, impracticability → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — VAMPISHNESS frowardness, perverseness → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1959 — KINK a perverse desire or inclination; a fetishistic or otherwise unconventional sexual preference → Amer. sl.

​NOUNS – PERSON
1719 — BUCKIE — BUCKY a perverse or refractory person; a mischievous or lively boy → Sc.
1846 ​— CROOKED STICK a cantankerous, cross-grained, and perverse person; a dishonest person
1886 — WIDDIE — WUDDY a very perverse or obstinate person → Sc.
1893 — WAMEREL a restless or wayward person; a wilful, perverse person→ Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — THRAW-MULE a perverse and obstinate person → N. Ireland (Bk.)
1926 — CUSS a perverse or obstinate fellow → US sl. (Bk.)
1973 — VISION a perverse child → Sc.

VERBS
1603 — IMPERVERSE to render perverse → obs.