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↩️ Can be undone 🧥 Usable both sides 🧥 A two-sided coat
reversible

reversible

3.7
A coat that can be worn with either side showing
  • noun
  • /rɪˈvɜːrsəbl/
translation icon : prenda reversible
  • The reversible coat features a solid color on one side and a patterned design on the other, ideal for different occasions.

Examples

  • He enjoyed his reversible vest, switching between the sleek black surface and the bright patterned side depending on his mood.

  • She wore her new jacket, a stylish reversible design, with the floral side facing out during the day.

  • Making his great new spell reversible had not been high on his list of priorities; who would ever want to turn a Gorgorian back?

    Fiction book (1993)

  • VI Geryon's Reversible

    Academic text (1995)

  • You notice the QOF alerts on her records flag up that you need to ask her about her smoking status and give her information about Long Acting Reversible.

    Academic text (2014)

  • All right, so the next thing I picked up from PrettyLittleThing is the Black Borg faux fur reversible bucket hats.

  • Wolffram: Imperfectly Price-Reversible ("Wolffram-Irreversible"): (10.3)

    Academic text (1992)

Compounds

reversible process
  • Specialized
6.0

A process where a system returns to how it started when the steps are done backward

Surface Forms

reversible singular
reversibles plural

Morphology

reversible = reversible (transparent) = reverse + ible

The noun is a substantive use of the adjective 'reversible', and the adjective itself is transparently formed from 'reverse' + '-ible'.

Etymology

A reversible (a noun for a coat) is a coat you can wear with either side out; the word comes from re- 'again' and vers- 'turn', so a reversible is literally something you can 'turn' to show the other side and get two looks in one.