Thesaurus / topsy-turvy
FEEDBACK- chaotic
- confused
- disarranged
- disorderly
- inside-out
- jumbled
- mixed up
- upended
- upside-down
- wrong-side up
- backwards
- in disorder
- inside-out
- upside-down
- any which way
- helter-skelter
- higgledy-piggledy
- upended
- wrong-side up
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How to use topsy-turvy in a sentence
Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYWhy, I know not what you call it; but if the house were turned topsy turvy, I should be in the cellar.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSShe made so much noise that Lance grabbed at her and tried to put her out of the room, Topsy still barking furiously.
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISONAlmost comic this last—a sort of topsy-turvy adultery charge!
A GERMAN POMPADOURMARIE HAYIt was all over, the light was gone, everything was topsy-turvy.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSONThe bottom had, indeed, dropped out of things—the universe was topsy-turvy.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSONBut, my lady, you hurry me so, it puts every thing topsy-turvy in my head; I could tell it as fast as possible my own way.
TALES AND NOVELS, VOLUME 3 (OF 10)MARIA EDGEWORTHWell, Topsy would run away, and a big, big man came out to papa and said he would train Topsy.
BEAUTIFUL JOEMARSHALL SAUNDERSA pandemoniac topsy-turveydom would have been the immediate consequence.
ISLAM HER MORAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUEARTHUR GLYN LEONARDBut what is an anachronism of this kind compared to that which involves the principal character in one continued topsy-turveydom?
THE ENGLISH STAGEAUGUSTIN FILONWORDS RELATED TO TOPSY-TURVY
- agee
- anfractuous
- angular
- asymmetric
- awry
- bowed
- catawampus
- circuitous
- cockeyed
- contorted
- crippled
- curved
- curving
- deformed
- deviating
- devious
- disfigured
- distorted
- errant
- gnarled
- hooked
- incurving
- indirect
- irregular
- kinky
- knurly
- lopsided
- meandering
- misshapen
- not straight
- oblique
- out of shape
- rambling
- roundabout
- screwy
- serpentine
- sinuous
- skewed
- slanted
- snaky
- spiral
- tilted
- topsy-turvy
- tortile
- tortuous
- twisted
- twisting
- uneven
- warped
- winding
- zigzag
- about
- any which way
- anyhow
- anywise
- around
- at random
- cluttered
- disorderly
- haphazard
- hastily
- headlong
- higgledy-piggledy
- hit-or-miss
- hotfoot
- hurriedly
- impetuously
- in confusion
- incautiously
- incontinently
- irregular
- jumbled
- muddled
- pell-mell
- random
- randomly
- rashly
- recklessly
- topsy-turvy
- tumultous/tumultuous
- unmindfully
- wildly
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.