'Upside down' definitions:
Definition of 'upside down'
(from WordNet)
adverb
In an inverted manner; "the box was lying on the floor upside down"
Definition of 'Upside down'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Upside down'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'upside down'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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