upturned

1. 1.

   having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom

   “an overturned car”

   “the upset pitcher of milk”

   “sat on an upturned bucket”

   Synonymsoverturnedupset

   Similarturned
2. 2.

   (used of noses) turned up at the end

   “a retrousse nose”

   “a small upturned nose”

   Synonymsretroussetip-tilted

   Similarshapely

Other forms of upturned

comparative

upturnedder·

superlative

upturneddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about upturned

What does upturned mean?

upturned means "having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in upturned?

upturned has 2 syllables: uptur-ned. The stress falls on "uptur".

What is another word for upturned?

Close synonyms include overturned, upset, retrousse, tip-tilted. 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 upturned a common word?

upturned is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.