Definitions

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

His clientele has flipped upside down, from some of the most refined people in the New York area to some of the seediest.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The court heard that the defendants "life has been turned upside down".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

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

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Beside it was a photo of the same spot, though the paper had turned ocher with age, with a boy hanging upside down from those same branches while Ishtar laughed at his antics.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

upside down

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