perversive

1. 1.

   tending to corrupt or pervert

   Synonymscorruptivepestiferous

   Similarevil

Questions about perversive

What does perversive mean?

perversive means "tending to corrupt or pervert".

How many syllables are in perversive?

perversive has 3 syllables: per-ver-sive. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for perversive?

Close synonyms include corruptive, pestiferous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is perversive a common word?

perversive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.