UPTURNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upturned mean? 

• UPTURNED (adjective)
  The adjective UPTURNED has 2 senses:

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

2. (used of noses) turned up at the end

  Familiarity information: UPTURNED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPTURNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

overturned; upset; upturned

Context example:

sat on an upturned bucket

Similar:

turned (moved around an axis or center)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used of noses) turned up at the end

Synonyms:

retrousse; tip-tilted; upturned

Context example:

a small upturned nose

Similar:

shapely (having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape)

 Context examples 

Then she looked into my upturned face with a very wistful smile.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The butler had hardly closed the door behind him when Lady Hilda was down on her knees at Holmes’s feet, her hands outstretched, her beautiful face upturned and wet with her tears.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As they approached, the travellers observed that he was advanced in years, and that his eyes were upturned and yellow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Glinda leaned forward and kissed the sweet, upturned face of the loving little girl.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He awakened many times to feel it falling on his upturned face.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This time, though we were continually half-buried, there was no trough in which to be swept, and we drifted squarely down upon the upturned boat, badly smashing it as it was heaved inboard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The sled itself was without runners, being a birch-bark toboggan, with upturned forward end to keep it from ploughing under the snow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I had been saved by being prompt; the dirk had struck not half a foot below me as I pursued my upward flight; and there stood Israel Hands with his mouth open and his face upturned to mine, a perfect statue of surprise and disappointment.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When I look back at my parents as they were in those days, it is at that very moment that I can picture them most clearly: her sweet face with the wet shining upon her cheeks, and his blue eyes upturned to the smoke-blackened ceiling.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His knees were drawn up, his hands thrown out in agony, and from the centre of his broad, brown, upturned throat there projected the white haft of a knife driven blade-deep into his body.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)