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| Main Entry: | perverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, evil |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, defiled, depraved, deviant, deviating, distorted, foreign, grotesque, impaired, kinky*, misguided, monstrous, queer, sick, tainted, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vitiate, wicked, abused, contorted, misused, outraged, polluted, vitiated, warped |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, healthy, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pervert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist, turn away from what is acceptable or correct |
| Synonyms: | abuse, adulterate, alloy, brainwash, color, corrupt, cut*, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, desecrate, distort, divert, doctor, fake, falsify, fudge*, garble, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, mistreat, misuse, outrage, prostitute, ruin, salt*, seduce, spike, vitiate, warp, water*, animalize, doctor up, phony up |
| Antonyms: | straighten, leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | debauched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violated, corrupted |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, corrupt, debased, defiled, degenerate, degraded, depraved, deteriorated, dissipated, dissolute, fast, immoral, licentious, perverted, profligate, reprobate, vitiate, wanton, wicked, gone bad, gone to the dogs, in the gutter, vitiated |
| Antonyms: | clean, improved, pure, virtuous, cleansed, purified, uncorrupt, unpolluted |
| Main Entry: | decadent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, self-indulgent |
| Synonyms: | debased, debauched, decaying, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissolute, effete, evil, immoral, lost, moribund, perverted, wanton, wicked, declining, gone bad, gone to the dogs, overripe |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, good, humble, kind, moral |
| Main Entry: | degenerate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, deteriorated |
| Synonyms: | base, debased, debauched, decadent, decayed, degraded, depraved, dissolute, effete, failing, fallen, immoral, infamous, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, retrograde, rotten, sinking, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, wicked, worsen, degenerated, demeaned, flatitious, overripe, retrogressive, vitiated |
| Notes: | to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to become lowered, or be reduced in value'; degenerate pertains more to character and virtue while deteriorate is more about loss of strength or vitality |
| Antonyms: | moral, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | depraved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, immoral |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, bad, base, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dirty*, dissolute, evil, fast*, filthy*, kinky*, lascivious, lewd, licentious, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, profligate, putrid, rotten, shameless, sinful, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vile, villainous, vitiate, wanton, wicked, dirty-minded, flagitous, gone to the dogs, vitiated, warped |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, just, moral, noble, pure, upright, virtuous, uncorrupt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deviant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abnormal, different |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bent, devious, divergent, heretical, irregular, kinky, off-key, perverse, perverted, preternatural, queer, twisted, unorthodox, untypical, variant, varying, wandering, wayward, weird, freaky, heteroclite, unrepresentative |
| Antonyms: | normal, regular, standard, usual |
| Main Entry: | grotesque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ugly, misshapen |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, absurd, antic, bizarre, deformed, distorted, eerie, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, fantastic, flamboyant, freakish, gross*, incongruous, ludicrous, malformed, monstrous, odd, outlandish, perverted, preposterous, queer, ridiculous, strange, uncanny, unnatural, weird, whimsical, grody, surrealistic |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, nice, pretty, shapely |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not religious |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheistic, blasphemous, canting, contrary, deceitful, diabolic, disobedient, disrespectful, godless, hardened, hypocritical, iconoclastic, immoral, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, perverted, profane, reprobate, sacrilegious, sanctimonious, satanic, scandalous, sinful, unctuous, unethical, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, wayward, wicked, defiling, desecrating, desecrative, pietistical, recusant, undutiful, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsanctified |
| Antonyms: | holy, pious, religious |
| Main Entry: | unnatural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not regular; artificial |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, affected, anomalous, assumed, bizarre, contrary, contrived, ersatz*, extraordinary, factitious, false, feigned, forced, freakish, imitation, incredible, insincere, irregular, labored, made-up*, make-believe*, odd, outlandish, outrageous, perverse, perverted, phony, preposterous, pseudo*, queer, stiff, stilted*, strained, strange, studied, supernatural, synthetic, theatrical, unaccountable, uncanny, unorthodox, unusual, concocted, fabricated, freaky, put-on, staged, unconforming |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, genuine, natural, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abject, appalling, bad, base, coarse, contemptible, corrupt, debased, degenerate, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, evil, filthy, foul, humiliating, ignoble, immoral, impure, iniquitous, loathsome, low, mean, miserable, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noxious, perverted, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sickening, sinful, sleazy*, stinking*, ugly, vicious, vulgar, wicked, worthless, wretched, horrid |
| Antonyms: | gentle, kind, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | colored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distorted |
| Synonyms: | biased, false, falsified, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, partisan, perverted, prejudiced, prepossessed, angled, misrepresented, tampered with, tendentious, warped |
| Antonyms: | genuine, honest, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | bastardize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | debase |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, corrupt, debauch, degrade, demoralize, deprave, pervert, vitiate, warp, bestialize, brutalize, declare illegitimate |
| Antonyms: | appreciate, praise, value |
| Main Entry: | belie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | color, conceal, disguise, distort, falsify, garble, hide, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp, give the lie to, gloss over, miscolor, trump up |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
| Synonyms: | arch, bow, buckle, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag, angle away, angle off, camber, incurvate |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | blemish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flaw, disfigure |
| Synonyms: | blot, blotch, blur, damage, deface, distort, harm, hurt, impair, injure, maim, mangle, mar, mark, mutilate, pervert, prejudice, scar, smudge, spoil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, twist, vitiate, wrench |
| Antonyms: | adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, ornament |
| Main Entry: | bribe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request silence, action, or inaction for money |
| Synonyms: | approach, buy, buy off, coax, corrupt, entice, fix*, get at, influence, instigate, lubricate, lure, pervert, reward, seduce, soap*, square, suborn, sugar, tamper, tempt, tip, buy back, do business, get to, grease palm, make a deal, oil palm, pay off, sweeten the pot, take care of |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | canker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blight, corrupt |
| Synonyms: | consume, corrode, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, embitter, inflict, pervert, poison, pollute, rot, ruin, scourge, sore, stain, ulcer, vitiate, animalize, bestialize, envenom |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort, exaggerate |
| Synonyms: | angle*, belie, cook up*, disguise, doctor*, embroider*, fake, falsify, fudge*, garble, magnify, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pad*, pervert, prejudice, slant*, taint, twist*, warp*, gloss over |
| Antonyms: | represent, be truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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