upside-down

Examples

• All

• When the cake is done, cool upside down for 1 1/2 hours, then remove from the pan.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The furniture was upside down, the TV was smashed, everything.

• So to my mind, my world had been turned upside down so completely.

• So I was lying upside down at the hospital in the room.

  Matteo Lane

• Next thing you know, I just woke up upside down, car's still running.

• The place was upside-down when I got there.

  Ty (2020)

• We are turning this place upside-down.

  Cookie's Fortune (1999)

• You're holding it upside down.

  The First Power (1990)

• The sea was striped with violet, and the sky an upside-down ocean washed with the same water tones.

  Fiction book (1991)

• After the storm, the furniture was left upside-down, making the room look chaotic.

Synonyms

U

upside down

vsupside-down

268 2.0

With the top where the bottom usually is

is the hyphenated form often used before a noun in compounds

T

the other way around

vsupside-down

108 3.2

In the opposite order, direction, or situation

applies specifically to top and bottom physical reversal rather than general order

I

inverted

vsupside-down

30 4.8

Placed or turned so the top and bottom are swapped

is the hyphenated compound form rather than this single-word style

U

upturned

vsupside-down

6 4.5

Something that has its bottom facing up, like a boat

is the hyphenated compound rather than a single short word for that position

T

turvy

vsupside-down

• Archaic

1 9.9

Turned upside down so the top is at the bottom

is the hyphenated compound rather than this single-word variant

How Inverted

upside-down

60 1.8

tilted

24 2.5

leaning

12 4.2

upright

96 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology