upside down

ADJECTIVE

reversed

Synonyms

WEAK

backwards bottom up inside out inverted orderless overturned topsy-turvy vice versa without order wrong side out

upside-down

ADJECTIVE

overturned, inverted

Synonyms

STRONGEST

tangled

WEAK

backward bottom up bottom-side-up confused disordered downside-up haywire helter-skelter in chaos in disarray jumbled mixed-up on head reversed topsy-turvy upended wrong way wrong-side up

Antonyms

WEAK

right-side up

Example Sentences

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A meme circulated portraying the Luce with iPhone applications photo-shopped onto the top, and another showing the car upside down and plugged into an iPhone charger.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

"You know, hanging about upside down, you've nothing to do, in fact sleeping most of the time," he said.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

So far this year, the Iran war has turned OPEC’s usual production problem upside down.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

"The results are a surprise. They turn our understanding of the evolution of the eye and the brain upside down," says Dan-E Nilsson, professor emeritus in sensory biology at Lund University.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

Unfortunately, as she was braking to a halt, one of her wheels hit a bomb crater and the aircraft flipped upside down.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

upside down

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