(a.) Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

a rebours against the grain anarchic ass over elbows ass-backwards back-to-front backwards balled up bollixed up by contraries capsized chaotic chiastic confused contra contrarily contrariously contrariwise conversely everted fouled up galley-west 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 mucked up muddled nay rather on the contrary oppositely otherwise outside in 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 upside down upside-down vice versa wrong side out