Synonyms of the word bent


BENTBENDED - BOWED - CROOKED - CRUMPLED - DAMAGED - DENTED - DISPOSITION - ENDOWMENT - GIFT - GRASS - GRASSLAND - HANG - INCLINATION - INCLINED - KNACK - RESOLUTE - SET - TALENT - TENDENCY

bent

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of bend.
  • adj. (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented.
  • adj. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly Britain) Homosexual.
  • adj. Determined or insistent.
  • adj. Of a person, leading a life of crime.
  • adj. (slang, soccer) inaccurate at shooting.
  • adj. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
  • adj. (slang) High from using both marijuana and alcohol.
  • n. An inclination or talent.
  • n. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
  • n. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
  • n. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  • n. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  • n. (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
  • n. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
  • n. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
  • n. A grassy area, grassland.

bended

  • adj. (archaic) bent.
  • v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of bend.

bowed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of bow.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of bow.
  • adj. Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments), e.g. a bowed instrument is played with a bow.

crooked

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of crook.
  • adj. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
  • adj. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
  • adj. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.

crumpled

  • adj. Squeezed into a compact mass by irregular folds.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of crumple.

damaged

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of damage.
  • adj. Suffered a damage.

dented

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of dent.

disposition

  • n. The arrangement or placement of certain things.
  • n. Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
  • n. Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
  • n. Control over something.
  • n. (law) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
  • n. (law) Final decision or settlement.
  • n. (medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
  • n. (music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
  • v. To remove or place in a different position.

endowment

  • n. Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
  • n. Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
  • n. A form of life insurance paying a lump sum to the policyholder on a fixed date, or to the estate if the…

gift

  • n. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
  • n. A talent or natural ability.
  • n. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
  • n. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
  • v. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
  • v. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.

grass

  • n. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes…
  • n. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  • n. (uncountable) A lawn.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
  • n. (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  • n. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced…
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
  • n. The season of fresh grass; spring.
  • n. (obsolete, figuratively) That which is transitory.
  • v. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals…
  • v. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
  • v. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

grassland

  • n. An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.

hang

  • v. (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
  • v. (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
  • v. (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to…
  • v. (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, or the like.
  • v. (transitive, law) To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
  • v. (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised…
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.
  • v. (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
  • v. (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
  • v. (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
  • v. (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must…
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
  • v. (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
  • v. (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
  • v. (transitive, baseball, slang) Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
  • n. The way in which something hangs.
  • n. (figuratively) A grip, understanding.
  • n. (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input devices.
  • n. A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
  • n. (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
  • n. Alternative spelling of Hang.

inclination

  • n. A physical tilt or bend.
  • n. A slant or slope.
  • n. A mental tendency.
  • n. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
  • n. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

inclined

  • adj. At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.
  • adj. Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of incline.

knack

  • n. A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.
  • n. A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.
  • n. Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
  • v. To speak affectedly.

resolute

  • adj. Firm, unyielding, determined.
  • adj. (obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.

set

  • v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
  • v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
  • v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
  • v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
  • v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
  • v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
  • v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
  • v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
  • v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
  • v. (intransitive) To solidify.
  • v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
  • v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
  • v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
  • v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
  • v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
  • v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
  • v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
  • v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  • v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
  • v. To place or fix in a setting.
  • v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
  • v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
  • v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
  • v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
  • v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
  • v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
  • v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
  • v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
  • v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
  • v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
  • n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
  • n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
  • n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
  • n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
  • n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
  • n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
  • n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
  • n. A young oyster when first attached.
  • n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
  • n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
  • n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
  • n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
  • adj. Fixed in position.
  • adj. Rigid, solidified.
  • adj. Ready, prepared.
  • adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
  • adj. Prearranged.
  • adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
  • adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
  • n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
  • n. A rudimentary fruit.
  • n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
  • n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
  • n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
  • n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
  • n. An object made up of several parts.
  • n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
  • n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
  • n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
  • n. The scenery for a film or play.
  • n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
  • n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
  • n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
  • n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
  • n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
  • n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
  • v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

talent

  • n. A marked natural ability or skill.
  • n. (historical) A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle…
  • n. (obsolete) A desire or inclination for something.
  • n. (business, media, sports) People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.
  • n. (slang) The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.

tendency

  • n. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
  • n. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

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