the other way around

1. 1.

   with the order reversed

   “she hates him and vice versa”

   Synonymsvice versacontrariwise

Questions about the other way around

What does the other way around mean?

the other way around means "with the order reversed".

What is another word for the other way around?

Close synonyms include vice versa, contrariwise. 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 the other way around a common word?

the other way around 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.