English Explanatory Dictionary

bent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of bend
adj
  1. Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
  2. Corrupt, dishonest.
  3. Homosexual.
  4. Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
  5. Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
  6. leading a life of crime.
  7. Inaccurately aimed.
  8. Suffering from the bends.
  9. High from both marijuana and alcohol.
noun
  1. An inclination or talent.
  2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
  3. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
  4. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  5. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  6. A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
  7. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
  8. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
  9. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
noun
  1. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
  2. Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
  3. A grassy area, grassland.
  4. Old dried stalks of grasses.
name
  1. A surname

Pronunciation

bĕnt /bɛnt/ en-us-bent.ogg

Word forms

bent benter more bent bentest most bent bents

Etymology

From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.

Synonyms

crooked queer homophile homosexual like that similisexual that way hell-bent butthurt predilection proclivity propensity disposition

Related words

hell-bent

Derived words

bent as a butcher's hook bent as a nine-bob note bent as a two bob bentbill bent car bent copper bent edge bent fork bent function bent grass Bentley bentness bent on bent on a splice bent-side Bent Spear bentwood bowbent downbent get bent get bent out of shape hellbent hyperbent inbent nick-bent prebent semibent time-bent at the top of one's bent to the top of one's bent brown bent colonial bent common bent creeping bent rough bent Bent County Bentleigh
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