inverse

inverse is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.
2. adjective. Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
3. adjective. Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x.
4. noun. That which is inverse.
5. noun. something inverted in sequence or character or effect

   "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"

   Synonyms: opposite

6. adjective. reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect

   Synonyms: reverse

7. adjective. opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity

   "a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"

Synonyms

opposite, reverse

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in inverse:

enviers, inserve, veiners, veneris, venires, versine

Common word forms

inversed, inverses, inversely, inversing

Words from these letters

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