Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

perversive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: per-ver-sive
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to pervert.

Example Sentences

"There is a widely diffused notion that among all specimens of animal creation man alone possesses any glimmering of reason. This notion is largely fallacious. It is one of those ideas, based upon superficial knowledge, which appeal to the sophisticated modern public. Its initial emergence and its popularity are alike due to the confounding of what is hereditary with what is acquired, and to the perversive confusion between instinct and knowledge."
"The late Australian performance artist Leigh Bowery had a profound influence on many designers. Provocative, and at times perversive (he once sprayed enema fluid over unsuspecting audience members),[…]"

Etymology

From Latin pervers-, the past participial stem of pervertō, + -ive.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ive

Inflected Forms

more perversive (comparative) most perversive (superlative)

Synonyms

corruptive pestiferous

Rhymes With

immersive subversive recursive cursive roman cursive tail recursive primitive recursive discursive dispersive aversive inversive abstersive

Questions

What does perversive mean?: Tending to pervert.
Where does perversive come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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