'Twisted' definitions:
Definition of 'twisted'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" [syn: distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted]
Definition of 'Twisted'
From: GCIDE
- Twist \Twist\ (tw[i^]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Twisting.] [OE. twisten, AS. twist a rope, as made of two (twisted) strands, fr. twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. tvistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See Twice, Two.]
- 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. [1913 Webster]
- Twist it into a serpentine form. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. "Longing to twist bays with that ivy." --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- There are pillars of smoke twisted about with wreaths of flame. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up. [1913 Webster]
- Was it not to this end That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Twisted'
From: GCIDE
- Twisted \Twist"ed\, a. Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. [1913 Webster]
- Twisted curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve.
- Twisted surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the consecutive positions of the line shall not be in one plane; a warped surface. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'twisted'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormal,
- affected,
- afflicted,
- agonized,
- anamorphous,
- anomalous,
- antiblack,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- askew,
- assumed,
- asymmetric,
- balled up,
- bastard,
- bent,
- biased,
- blemished,
- bogus,
- bowed,
- brummagem,
- Byzantine,
- chauvinistic,
- checked,
- cicatrized,
- cockeyed,
- colorable,
- colored,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- contorted,
- convoluted,
- convulsed,
- cooked,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- crabbed,
- cracked,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crotchety,
- crucified,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- daedal,
- defaced,
- defective,
- deformed,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- devious,
- different,
- disfigured,
- distorted,
- distressed,
- divergent,
- doctored,
- doctrinaire,
- dogmatic,
- dotty,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- eccentric,
- elaborate,
- embellished,
- embrangled,
- embroidered,
- entangled,
- erratic,
- ersatz,
- exceptional,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- faulty,
- feigned,
- fey,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flaky,
- flawed,
- fouled up,
- freakish,
- funny,
- garbled,
- harrowed,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- implicated,
- in distress,
- in pain,
- influenced,
- interested,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- irregular,
- jaundiced,
- junky,
- keloidal,
- kinked,
- kinky,
- knotted,
- know-nothing,
- kooky,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- lacerated,
- lopsided,
- loused up,
- maggoty,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- many-faceted,
- marred,
- martyred,
- martyrized,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- misquoted,
- misrepresented,
- mixed up,
- mock,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- nonobjective,
- nonsymmetric,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- on the rack,
- one-sided,
- opinionated,
- pained,
- partial,
- partisan,
- peculiar,
- perplexed,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- pinchbeck,
- prejudiced,
- prepossessed,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- quirky,
- racist,
- racked,
- ramified,
- roundabout,
- scabbed,
- scabby,
- scarified,
- scarred,
- screwball,
- screwed up,
- screwy,
- self-styled,
- sexist,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- singular,
- slanted,
- snarled,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- split,
- sprung,
- spurious,
- strained,
- strange,
- subtle,
- suffering,
- superpatriotic,
- supposititious,
- swayed,
- synthetic,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- tormented,
- tortuous,
- tortured,
- ultranationalist,
- unauthentic,
- unconventional,
- under the harrow,
- undetached,
- undispassionate,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- unsymmetric,
- wacky,
- warped,
- whimsical,
- wounded,
- wrung,
- xenophobic
Words containing 'Twisted'
- Twist,
- Twiste,
- Twisting,
- Damascus twist,
- Drag twist,
- Gain twist,
- Gaining twist,
- Increase twist,
- Machine twist,
- Mule twist,
- Stub twist,
- Twist drill,
- Twisted curve,
- Twisted surface,
- Twisting pair,
- Uniform twist,
- Water twist,
- thrown and twisted,
- twined twisted,
- twist around,
- twist bit,
- twist wood,
- arm-twisting,
- twisted-horn