What is another word for pervert?

Pronunciation: [pəvˈɜːt] (IPA)

The word "pervert" refers to an individual who deviates from expected social norms when it comes to sexual behaviour. However, there are several other words that can be used to describe someone who fits this description. Some synonyms of "pervert" include "deviant," which refers to someone who deviates from accepted norms, "degenerate," which describes someone who has declined from a former state or moral standard, and "lewd," which refers to someone who behaves or speaks in a sexually inappropriate manner. Other synonyms include "kinky," "sick," and "twisted" which are all descriptive of someone who engages in sexual behaviour that falls outside of societal norms.

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  • Independent

    • Verb, 3rd person singular present
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  • Other Related

    • Interjection
      PERV.
    • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
      PERV.

What are the hypernyms for Pervert?

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What are the opposite words for pervert?

Pervert is a word used to describe someone who behaves in a sexually immoral or inappropriate manner. Antonyms for the word pervert would be words that describe the opposite behavior. Some of the antonyms that come to mind are terms like chaste, virtuous, pure, decent, respectable, and honorable. These are all words that describe people who behave in a morally upright way and who respect the boundaries of appropriate behavior. While pervert has negative connotations, it's important to remember that not everyone behaves in this way and that there are many antonyms that can be used to describe people who strive to be good and decent members of society.

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Usage examples for Pervert

Yet because de Quincey was an opium-fiend, Poe a drunkard and Oscar Wilde a pervert, it does not follow that every clever writer is unfit for decent society.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
How my heart sickens at the thought that human ambitions and human vanities should so pervert man's highest mission-peace-turning the world into scenes of strife and bloodshed!
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid
Could they, with the wretched selfish jealousy of a modern marriage-maker, seek to cadaverate affection and to pervert each other into a utensil, a commodity, a thing appropriate to self and liable with other lumber to be cast aside?
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft

Famous quotes with Pervert

  • How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
    Samuel Adams
  • The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
    Jacob Bronowski
  • Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
    Jean de la Bruyere
  • The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.
    John Bates Clark
  • It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
    Denis Diderot

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