upside down
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
upside down
adv 1: in an inverted manner; "the box was lying on the floor
upside down"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Upside \Up"side`\, n.
1. The upper side; the part that is uppermost.
[1913 Webster]
2. the benefits; the positive features; -- said of a
situation or event that has both positive (good) and
negative (bad) aspects.
[PJC]
{To be upsides with}, to be even with. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
--Sir W. Scott. --T. Hughes.
{Upside down}. [Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down,
literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost;
hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
These that have turned the world upside down are
come hither also. --Acts xvii.
6.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "upside down":
a rebours, against the grain, anarchic, arsy-varsy,
ass over elbows, ass-backwards, back-to-front, backwards,
balled up, bollixed up, bottom side up, bottom up, by contraries,
capsized, chaotic, chiastic, confused, contra, contrarily,
contrariously, contrariwise, conversely, everted, fouled up,
galley-west, haywire, head over heels, heels over head,
helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, hyperbatic,
in a mess, in flat opposition, inside out, introverted,
invaginated, inversed, inversely, inverted, jumbled,
just the opposite, mixed up, mixed-up, mucked up, muddled,
nay rather, on the contrary, oppositely, otherwise, outside in,
over, palindromic, per contra, quite the contrary, rather,
resupinate, retroverted, reversed, scattered, screwed up,
skimble-skamble, snafu, to the contrary, topsy-turvy,
tout au contraire, transposed, turned around, vice versa,
wrong side out
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