perversive

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
21
Letters
10

Definition of perversive

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Tending to pervert.
    “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),[…]”

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Etymology

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

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