PERVERT
Dictionary entry overview: What does pervert mean?
• PERVERT (noun)
The noun PERVERT has 1 sense:
1. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
Familiarity information: PERVERT used as a noun is very rare.
• PERVERT (verb)
The verb PERVERT has 3 senses:
1. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
2. practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
3. change the inherent purpose or function of something
Familiarity information: PERVERT used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• PERVERT (noun)
Meaning:
A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
degenerate; deviant; deviate; pervert
Hypernyms ("pervert" is a kind of...):
miscreant; reprobate (a person without moral scruples)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pervert"):
fetishist (one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature))
bugger; sod; sodomist; sodomite (someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male))
lech; lecher; letch; satyr (man with strong sexual desires)
sadomasochist (someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism)
sadist (someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others)
paedophile; pedophile (an adult who is sexually attracted to children)
child molester; paederast; pederast (a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner)
nympho; nymphomaniac (a woman with abnormal sexual desires)
masochist (someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment)
• PERVERT (verb)
Meaning:
Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
profane; pervert; misdirect; deprave; demoralize; demoralise; debauch; debase; corrupt; vitiate; subvert
Context examples:
debauch the young people with wine and women / Socrates was accused of corrupting young men / Do school counselors subvert young children? / corrupt the morals
Hypernyms (to "pervert" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pervert"):
carnalise; carnalize; sensualise; sensualize (debase through carnal gratification)
infect (contaminate with ideas or an ideology)
lead astray; lead off (teach immoral behavior to)
whore (corrupt by lewd intercourse)
poison (spoil as if by poison)
bastardise; bastardize (change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms)
suborn (incite to commit a crime or an evil deed)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
twist around; pervert; sophisticate; convolute; twist
Context example:
Don't twist my words
Hypernyms (to "pervert" is one way to...):
denote; refer (have as a meaning)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Change the inherent purpose or function of something
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
abuse; misuse; pervert
Context examples:
Don't abuse the system / The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers
Hypernyms (to "pervert" is one way to...):
expend; use (use up, consume fully)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pervert"):
take in vain (use a name, such as God, without proper respect)
fracture (violate or abuse)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
