upside-down

upside-down
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. reversed, inverted, head over heels, standing on one's head, bottom-side up; upended, capsized. See inversion, disorder.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. topsy-turvy, tangled, bottom-side up, inverted, rear-end foremost, backward, the wrong way, wrong-side uppermost, patas arriba (Spanish), cart-before-the-horse*, heels-over-apple-cart*, head-over-heels*, ass-backward*, bass-ackward*.
Ant. upright*, right-side up, steady.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
inverted, bottom-side up, topside down, reversed, wrong-side up, backward, *bassackwards, topsy-turvy.
ANT.: righted, right-side-up
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Turned over completely: capsized, inverted, overturned, upset, upturned. See HORIZONTAL. 2. Characterized by physical confusion: chaotic, confused, disordered, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, topsy-turvy. Informal: mixed-up. See ORDER.

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