 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
twisted
adjective
1: wound or wrapped around something; "hair twined around her
fingers"; "bulky with twisted stitches around the
edges" [syn: {twined}]
2: strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with
contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of
steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn: {contorted},
{distorted}]
3: 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}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Twist \Twist\, verb (used with an object) [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. twistr the
deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See {Twice}, {Two}.]
1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally;
to convolve.
Twist it into a serpentine form. --Pope.
2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert;
as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
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.
4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture
of parts. ''Longing to twist bays with that ivy.''
--Waller.
There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of
flame. --T. Burnet.
5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as,
avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
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.
7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another;
to wreathe; to make up.
Was it not to this end
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? --Shak.
8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to
twist wool or cotton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Twisted \Twist"ed\, adjective
Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence,
perverted.
{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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
219 Moby Thesaurus words for "twisted":
Byzantine, abnormal, affected, afflicted, agonized, anamorphous,
anomalous, antiblack, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed,
asymmetric, balled up, bastard, bent, biased, blemished, bogus,
bowed, brummagem, 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
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