Synonyms and Antonyms of perverse
- how can you be so cheerful one day, and so perverse the next?
bearish, bilious, cantankerous, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, off-color (or off-colored), ornery, querulous, snarly, surly
argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, disputatious, fractious, fretful, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent
huffy, pouty, sensitive, short, sulky, sullen, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy
affable, companionable, cordial, extroverted (also extraverted), friendly, genial, gregarious, outgoing, sociable
agreeable, amiable, good-natured, good-tempered, sweet, well-disposed
carefree, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, relaxed
forbearing, long-suffering, obliging, patient, stoic (or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining, understanding
- social conservatives who believe that Hollywood is a perverse world that exerts an unhealthy influence on the young
bent [chiefly British], crooked, cutthroat, dishonest, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous
contaminated, spoiled, tainted
bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, miscreant, nefarious, sinful, vicious, wicked
- a fact so self-evident that not even the most perverse of opponents could deny it