Showing posts with label bent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bent. Show all posts

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Bent

bent (bnt)

verb
1. Past tense and past participle of bend.
He will bend the spoon; I'm bending the spoon; and she bent the spoon.

Synonyms: arch, bow, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, curl, deform, flex. hook, pervert, twist, warp, wind, zigzag.

adjective
1. No longer straight or even.
All of her pens were bent because she habitually chewed on them.

Synonyms: angled, arched, bowed, contorted, crooked, doubled over, hooked, twisted, warped.

2. A kind of determination.
He was hell bent on making sure I would never forget him.

Synonyms:
bound, decided, disposed, firm, inclined, intent, predisposed, preference, resolute, resolved, set, settled, tendency.

3. Angry.
Our conversation left me a little bent.

Synonyms: angry, annoyed, bothered, grumpy, irritated, moody. pissed off.

4. Not exactly heterosexual.
I don't know if I'm gay, but I'm not straight. Let's put it this way, I'm a little bent.

Synonyms: bisexual, queer.

noun
1. A state of being or a disposition that requires an adjective to refine it.
I'm insanely bent on perverting the dictionary for my own purposes.

Synonyms:
bent, craving, fixation, inclination, thing.

2. The state of being intoxicated through excessive use of alcohol and marijuana.
After all this time, he got bent and decided to ask me how I felt about the way our relationship ended. That's right, he got bent and texted me at three in the morning!

Synonyms: befuddled, krunk, pissed, wasted.

3. The state of just being messed up.
I should have told him to get bent!

Synonyms: you don't want to know.