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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for upside down:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

upside down
    adv 1: in an inverted manner; "the box was lying on the floor
           upside down"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Upside down \Up"side down`\, adv.
   in such a manner that the part normally pointed upward is
   pointed downward; same as upsidown and upsodown.
   [PJC]

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