Synonyms for Perverse:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • perverse.
  •averse (adjective)
  • un-friendlier,
  • anti-pathetic,
  • more disliking,
  • un friendly,
  • more ill disposed,
  • more uneager,
  • un-friendliest,
  • most ill disposed,
  • un friendliest,
  • more illdisposed,
  • illdisposed,
  • dis liking,
  • dis inclined,
  • un eager,
  • dis-inclined,
  • un favorable,
  • in-disposed,
  • most ill-disposed,
  • un-friendly,
  • un willing,
  • more ill-disposed,
  • most disliking,
  • un-willing,
  • in disposed,
  • anti pathetic,
  • un-favorable,
  • most illdisposed,
  • ill disposed,
  • dis-liking,
  • most uneager,
  • un friendlier,
  • un-eager.
  •bad-tempered (adjective)
  • ill-natured.
  •balky (adjective)
  • in-flexible,
  • in flexible,
  • more negativistic,
  • un-predictable,
  • un-bending,
  • un predictable,
  • immovable,
  • un bending,
  • most negativistic,
  • un manageable,
  • un-manageable.
  •cantankerous (adjective)
  • bad tempered,
  • illhumored,
  • more bearish,
  • most illhumored,
  • more ill-humored,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • ill humored,
  • most ill humored,
  • most vinegarish,
  • ill-humored,
  • more illhumored,
  • badtempered,
  • more ill humored,
  • dis agreeable,
  • more vinegarish,
  • most bearish,
  • snappish,
  • huffy,
  • most ill-humored,
  • most vinegary,
  • more vinegary.
  •captious (adjective)
  • more exceptive,
  • more cavillous,
  • ex-acting,
  • most nit-picking,
  • most exceptive,
  • most deprecating,
  • over-critical,
  • most caviling,
  • more nit-picking,
  • most cavillous,
  • more nit picking,
  • overcritical,
  • hyper-critical,
  • most nit picking,
  • hyper critical,
  • more deprecating,
  • ex acting,
  • nit picking,
  • more caviling,
  • fault finding.
  •contrarious (adjective)
  • in-imitable,
  • in imitable.
  •contrary (adjective)
  • Non-conforming,
  • nonconformist,
  • most paradoxical,
  • most reverse,
  • most opposed,
  • most recusant,
  • more paradoxical,
  • most dissentient,
  • non conforming,
  • more wrongheaded,
  • more anti,
  • more dissentient,
  • dis sentient,
  • more reverse,
  • more contrariant,
  • re-verse,
  • most clashing,
  • anti thetical,
  • re verse,
  • in consistent,
  • anti-thetical,
  • more clashing,
  • non conformist,
  • most wrongheaded,
  • most anti,
  • dis-sentient,
  • in-consistent,
  • most contrariant,
  • more recusant.
  •contumacious (adjective)
  • insurgent.
  •corrupt (adjective)
  • de graded,
  • monstrous,
  • dis honored,
  • more abased,
  • de generate,
  • dis solute,
  • dis-solute,
  • de-generate,
  • more evil,
  • dis-honored,
  • more dishonored,
  • most abased,
  • most dishonored,
  • de-graded.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • chuffiest,
  • most mumpish,
  • chuffier,
  • more mumpish.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • mis anthropic,
  • illtempered,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • ill tempered,
  • more nastytempered,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • nastytempered,
  • splenetic,
  • un sociable,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • more splenetic,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • nasty tempered,
  • most nastytempered,
  • gloomy,
  • un-sociable,
  • most splenetic,
  • most crabbed.
  •cranky (adjective)
  • got up on wrong side bed,
  • most badhumored,
  • got wrong side bed,
  • out sorts,
  • like bear,
  • quicktempered,
  • got on wrong side bed,
  • more bad humored,
  • most cussed,
  • got upon wrong side of bed,
  • more badhumored,
  • quick tempered,
  • most bad humored,
  • most bad-humored,
  • got up wrong side of bed,
  • badhumored,
  • got up wrong side bed,
  • more bad-humored,
  • hot tempered,
  • got wrong side of bed,
  • got on wrong side of bed,
  • more cussed,
  • got upon wrong side bed,
  • bad humored.
  •deaf (adjective)
  • unhearing,
  • to listen blind,
  • self-willed.
  •deformed (adjective)
  • bent,
  • asymmetrical,
  • crooked,
  • flawed,
  • awry,
  • deformed,
  • distorted,
  • cockeyed,
  • irregular,
  • disfigured,
  • freakish,
  • lopsided,
  • misshapen,
  • contorted.
  •deviant (adjective)
  • un-typical,
  • un orthodox,
  • un-representative,
  • off key,
  • more unrepresentative,
  • more heteroclite,
  • heretical,
  • most unrepresentative,
  • un-orthodox,
  • hetero clite,
  • Heteroclite,
  • un typical,
  • hetero-clite,
  • un representative,
  • most heteroclite,
  • offkey.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • intractable,
  • unaccommodating,
  • unamenable,
  • oafish,
  • hard to please.
  •disobedient (adjective)
  • unruly,
  • non-compliant,
  • nonobservant.
  •fractious (adjective)
  • pettish,
  • fractious.
  •fretful (adjective)
  • short tempered,
  • un easiest,
  • un-easiest,
  • shorttempered,
  • un easier,
  • un easy,
  • faultfinding,
  • worried,
  • un-easier,
  • wreckest.
  •froward (adjective)
  • in submissive,
  • in-submissive,
  • more insubmissive,
  • insubmissive,
  • most insubmissive.
  •hard (adjective)
  • unsparing,
  • harder,
  • stern,
  • hardboiled,
  • coldblooded,
  • hard as nails.
  •hard-nosed/hardheaded (adjective)
  • levelheaded,
  • more toughnut,
  • most tough nut,
  • re solute,
  • more unsentimental,
  • most tough-nut,
  • more hard nosed,
  • re-solute,
  • more tough-nut,
  • un-sentimental,
  • un sentimental,
  • most toughnut,
  • hard-nosed,
  • most hardheaded,
  • hard nosed,
  • more tough nut,
  • most unsentimental,
  • toughnut.
  •hardheaded (adjective)
  • level headed.
  •headstrong (adjective)
  • strong minded,
  • un-governable,
  • lockedin,
  • strongminded,
  • un-controllable,
  • head strong,
  • more murder,
  • most locked in,
  • most lockedin,
  • more lockedin,
  • most strongminded,
  • most strong minded,
  • mulest,
  • un governable,
  • muler,
  • most murder,
  • most strong-minded,
  • more locked-in,
  • more strong-minded,
  • most locked-in,
  • more locked in,
  • more strong minded,
  • un controllable,
  • hardshell,
  • more strongminded.
  •ill-natured (adjective)
  • illnatured,
  • most tempersome,
  • dis-obliging,
  • ill natured,
  • more tempersome,
  • dis obliging,
  • tempersome,
  • temperamental.
  •incompliant (adjective)
  • in-compliant,
  • most brassbound,
  • in compliant,
  • more brassbound.
  •indocile (adjective)
  • in-docile,
  • in docile.
  •infamous (adjective)
  • dis graceful,
  • most ill famed,
  • dis-reputable,
  • most illfamed,
  • in famous,
  • scurviest,
  • de testable,
  • in-famous,
  • most ill-famed,
  • dis-honorable,
  • more ill famed,
  • scurvier,
  • more illfamed,
  • most caitiff,
  • dis reputable,
  • opprobrious,
  • dis honorable,
  • more caitiff,
  • illfamed,
  • ill famed,
  • de-testable,
  • more ill-famed,
  • dis-graceful,
  • infamous.
  •insubordinate (adjective)
  • in-subordinate,
  • un complying,
  • more uncomplying,
  • most dissentious,
  • most uncomplying,
  • more dissentious,
  • un-complying,
  • in subordinate.
  •intractable (adjective)
  • in tractable,
  • bull headed,
  • in-tractable,
  • most bull-headed,
  • more bull-headed,
  • most bull headed,
  • more bull headed.
  •intractable /intransigent (adjective)
  • in-curable,
  • in soluble,
  • set stone,
  • un compromising,
  • hardline,
  • in curable,
  • in-soluble,
  • unpliablest,
  • un-pliable,
  • un pliable,
  • un-pliabler,
  • un-compromising,
  • un pliablest,
  • un pliabler,
  • unpliabler,
  • un-pliablest,
  • most intransigent.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • fretful,
  • crabby.
  •mean, ornery; troublesome (adjective)
  • contradictory,
  • abnormal,
  • intransigent,
  • spiteful,
  • bad-tempered,
  • obstinate,
  • refractory,
  • cross,
  • unmanageable,
  • rebellious,
  • stubborn,
  • unyielding,
  • villainous,
  • degenerate.
  •miscreant (adjective)
  • re prehensible,
  • un-principled,
  • re-prehensible,
  • re-probate,
  • un principled,
  • re probate,
  • most rascally,
  • more rascally.
  •morose (adjective)
  • down the mouth,
  • morose,
  • singing blues,
  • down the dumps,
  • more moping,
  • in a blue funk,
  • more perversive,
  • down mouth,
  • down dumps,
  • most moping,
  • most perversive,
  • having blahs.
  •naughty (adjective)
  • teasing,
  • more exasperating,
  • ex-asperating,
  • in decorous,
  • in-decorous,
  • ex asperating,
  • most exasperating,
  • impish.
  •obdurate (adjective)
  • in-exorable,
  • hard hearted,
  • un compassionate,
  • un impressible,
  • tough nut crack,
  • un emotional,
  • most hard-hearted,
  • stiffnecked,
  • un-shakable,
  • most stiff-necked,
  • more stiffnecked,
  • most hard hearted,
  • more hard-hearted,
  • most stiff necked,
  • most bullhead,
  • un-impressible,
  • most unimpressible,
  • more bullhead,
  • un-emotional,
  • more stiff necked,
  • more hard hearted,
  • more unimpressible,
  • un-compassionate,
  • un shakable,
  • most stiffnecked,
  • more indurate,
  • more stiff-necked,
  • stiff necked,
  • most indurate.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • opinionative,
  • dead set on,
  • opinionated.
  •opposing (adjective)
  • averse.
  •ornery (adjective)
  • froward.
  •perverted (adjective)
  • twisted.
  •petulant (adjective)
  • up-tight,
  • most pouting,
  • up tight,
  • more whining,
  • dis-pleased,
  • dis pleased,
  • grumbling,
  • more pouting,
  • un-gracious,
  • whiniest,
  • whiny,
  • un gracious,
  • whinier,
  • most whining,
  • more crybaby,
  • most crybaby.
  •pig-headed (adjective)
  • pig headed.
  •refractory (adjective)
  • un-responsive,
  • un responsive.
  •rotten (adjective)
  • most contaminated,
  • most vitiated,
  • dis-loyal,
  • more contaminated,
  • most sullied,
  • un clean,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • more polluted,
  • most polluted,
  • un cleanest,
  • more sullied,
  • de-filed,
  • dis loyal,
  • un-cleaner,
  • most dirtied,
  • most bribable,
  • un-cleanest,
  • more dirtied,
  • more vitiated,
  • de filed,
  • more bribable,
  • un cleaner.
  •sinister (adjective)
  • most blackhearted,
  • dis honest,
  • more malefic,
  • un luckiest,
  • un propitious,
  • illboding,
  • in auspicious,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un lucky,
  • more doomful,
  • most doomful,
  • fore boding,
  • un-lucky,
  • ill boding,
  • more foreboding,
  • Ill-boding,
  • dis-quieting,
  • most foreboding,
  • un-luckier,
  • un luckier,
  • more blackhearted,
  • portentous,
  • un fortunate,
  • fore-boding,
  • most malefic,
  • in-auspicious,
  • dis-honest,
  • dis quieting.
  •stubborn (adjective)
  • set in ways,
  • set ones ways,
  • un reasonable,
  • set one ways,
  • set one's ways,
  • set ways,
  • set in one ways,
  • set in ones ways,
  • single minded,
  • un-reasonable.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • pouty,
  • sourpussed,
  • tenebrific.
  •surly (adjective)
  • dis-courteous,
  • un civil,
  • illmannered,
  • more curmudgeonly,
  • most curmudgeonly,
  • ill mannered,
  • un-civil,
  • dis courteous.
  •tortuous (adjective)
  • in volute,
  • in-direct,
  • in direct,
  • in-volute,
  • mis leading,
  • mis-leading.
  •unbendable (adjective)
  • un-bendable,
  • un bendable.
  •uncompliant (adjective)
  • un-compliant,
  • un compliant.
  •uncooperative (adjective)
  • un-cooperative,
  • un cooperative.
  •unnatural (adjective)
  • in-sincerer,
  • puton,
  • in sincere,
  • more put on,
  • more unconforming,
  • un cannier,
  • super natural,
  • un accountable,
  • un-natural,
  • most put on,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • more put-on,
  • most puton,
  • makebelieve,
  • un conforming,
  • un-conforming,
  • most staged,
  • in sincerer,
  • in-sincere,
  • in-credible,
  • super-natural,
  • more imitation,
  • un canny,
  • more staged,
  • madeup,
  • in-sincerest,
  • un usual,
  • most fabricated,
  • un-cannier,
  • most imitation,
  • un-canniest,
  • in sincerest,
  • un-usual,
  • un canniest,
  • more concocted,
  • un natural,
  • most concocted,
  • most unconforming,
  • in credible.
  •unruly (adjective)
  • in-corrigible,
  • out line,
  • in corrigible,
  • out control.
  •untoward (adjective)
  • in opportune,
  • mis-fortunate,
  • un timely,
  • un-happy,
  • more misfortunate,
  • starcrossed,
  • in convenient,
  • un happiest,
  • in-convenient,
  • un-timelier,
  • un-timely,
  • un happy,
  • most misfortunate,
  • in-opportune,
  • star crossed,
  • un timeliest,
  • ill starred,
  • illstarred,
  • Star-crossed,
  • mis fortunate,
  • un timelier,
  • un-timeliest,
  • un happier.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • deaf.
  •vicious (adjective)
  • de-based,
  • de moralized,
  • untamed,
  • in decent,
  • un-tamed,
  • de-moralized,
  • un tamed,
  • in-decent,
  • de based.
  •wanton (adjective)
  • more unprovoked,
  • un-fairer,
  • most unprovoked,
  • un-justifiable,
  • un fairer,
  • un-provoked,
  • more double-crossing,
  • un fairest,
  • un-fairest,
  • most motiveless,
  • un justified,
  • un-justified,
  • un-asked,
  • un-fair,
  • most double-crossing,
  • more double crossing,
  • most double crossing,
  • un justifiable,
  • un fair,
  • un asked,
  • more motiveless,
  • un provoked,
  • most doublecrossing,
  • uncalledfor.
  •wayward (adjective)
  • in-constant,
  • most cross-grained,
  • selfindulgent,
  • un stablest,
  • most crossgrained,
  • un dependable,
  • more cross-grained,
  • un-dependable,
  • most cross grained,
  • un-stablest,
  • un-stabler,
  • un stable,
  • cross grained,
  • self indulgent,
  • more cross grained,
  • more crossgrained,
  • un stabler,
  • un-stable.
  •wicked (adjective)
  • blameworthy,
  • evildoing,
  • felonious,
  • wrongdoing,
  • indecent,
  • debased,
  • debauched,
  • shocking,
  • Misdoing,
  • base,
  • iniquitous,
  • criminal,
  • improper,
  • damnable,
  • obnoxious,
  • scandalous,
  • black,
  • bad,
  • sinful,
  • lawbreaking,
  • reprehensible.
  •wrong (adjective)
  • misfigured,
  • not right,
  • sophistical,
  • on the wrong track,
  • not precise,
  • in error,
  • Misconstrued,
  • ungrounded,
  • fluffed,
  • not working,
  • off-target.

• n.

  •
  • hysterical,
  • ridiculous,
  • extreme.
  •
  • irritable.
  •
  • resist,
  • pertinacious.
  •
  • impossible,
  • support,
  • attitude.
  •depraved (noun)
  • depraved.
  •erring (noun)
  • wayward,
  • wicked,
  • erring.
  •immoral (noun)
  • immoral.
  •negative (noun)
  • negative.
  •obstinate (noun)
  • inflexible,
  • awkward.
  •perverse (noun)
  • reprobate,
  • perverted.

• v.

  •erring (verb)
  • delinquent,
  • malicious,
  • capricious.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disorganized,
  • nonsensical,
  • unreasonable,
  • fatuous,
  • grotesque,
  • wrong-headed,
  • senseless,
  • counterintuitive,
  • unwise,
  • fantastic,
  • immoderate,
  • childish,
  • fanciful,
  • impractical,
  • ill-advised,
  • illogical,
  • absurd,
  • unsound,
  • intemperate,
  • imprudent,
  • irresponsible,
  • ill-conceived,
  • fondly,
  • absurdly,
  • irrational,
  • flagitious,
  • airy-fairy,
  • peevish,
  • farcical,
  • starry-eyed,
  • foolhardy,
  • bullheaded,
  • harum-scarum,
  • unjustifiable,
  • crabbed,
  • ornery,
  • inane,
  • inadvisable.
  •
  • hardheaded,
  • grandiose,
  • dogged,
  • mulish,
  • tortuous,
  • headstrong,
  • tenacious,
  • restless,
  • dreamy.
  •relentless
  • remorseless.

Paraphrases for Perverse:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    perverted.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    absurd, evil, distorted, counterproductive, malicious, harmful, abusive, aberrant, improper, unreasonable, negative, unnatural, irrational, twisted, iniquitous, nonsensical, deviant, detrimental, nasty, nefarious, senseless, insidious, kinky, Distorting, ridiculous, nonsense, misguided, ludicrous, false, deleterious, injurious, unwanted, illogical, erroneous, abnormal, opposite, damaging, wrong, undesired, inappropriate, prejudicial, oppressive, unfair, disruptive, bizarre, unfavourable, bad, odd, grotesque, pointless, unwarranted, devastating, disastrous, unjustified, unscrupulous, disadvantageous, insane.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    pernicious, wicked, adverse, warped, preposterous, vicious, undesirable, outrageous, anomalous, counter-productive, strange.

Antonyms for Perverse:

• adj.

  • mean, ornery; troublesome
    compliant, happy, agreeable, nice, reasonable, willing.
  • Other antonyms:
    companionable, fine, fit, friendly, responsive, good-tempered, seasonable, compatible, positive, fitting, exemplary, accepting, relative, seemly, genial, congenial, satisfactory, yielding, timely, tolerable, obliging, carefree, consonant, kosher, well-disposed, congruous, genteel, placable, understanding, cordial, flexible, felicitous, apropos, appropriate, blameless, harmonious, forbearing, extroverted, approved, kind, pliable, gregarious, incorrupt, proper, apposite, Uncorrupt, uncomplaining, complying, good, germane, balanced, passable, receptive, virtuous, suitable, temperate, outgoing, good-natured, stoic, right, apt, endorsed, befitting, governable, happy-go-lucky, relaxed, opportune, permitted, licensed, becoming, encouraged, fortunate, patient, authorized, sanctioned, correct, persuadable, sociable, subservient, slavish, easygoing, pliant, complaisant, commendable, supported, adequate, manageable, creditable, pure, sweet, amiable, pointed, pat, affable, uncorrupted, meet, applicable, companionate, accommodating, decorous, moral, long-suffering, material, incorruptible, neutral, irreproachable, acceptable, relevant.