inverted

/ɪnˈvʌrɾɪd/

/ɪnˈvʌtɪd/

Other forms: invertedly

If something is inverted, it's upside-down, like an inverted angel food cake that you flipped over so it could cool on the counter after baking.

Do a handstand and you have an inverted body, with your head down and your feet up in the air. You can use this adjective to describe anything that's literally upside down or otherwise reversed. For example, Opposite Day at school might involve inverted roles, in which students teach the teachers. Inverted derives from the Latin invertere, "turn about," and its root, which means "to turn or bend."

Definitions of inverted

1. adjective

   being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed
   “a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma”

   synonyms: upside-down

   turned

   moved around an axis or center
2. adjective

   (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
   synonyms: anatropous