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bent
1[ bent ]
adjective
- curved; crooked: a bent stick.
a bent bow;
a bent stick.
Synonyms: ,
to be bent on buying a new car.
Synonyms:
- Chiefly British Slang.
- morally crooked; corrupt.
- stolen:
bent merchandise.
- unbalanced or crazy; irrational:
Man, your take on things is so bent I can hardly follow it.
- Chiefly British Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. gay ( def 1 ).
noun
- direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination:
a bent for painting.
Synonyms: , , , , , , ,
- capacity of endurance:
to work at the top of one's bent.
- Civil Engineering. a transverse frame, as of a bridge or an aqueduct, designed to support either vertical or horizontal loads.
- Archaic. bent state or form; curvature.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of bend 1.
bent
2[ bent ]
noun
- a stalk of bent grass.
- Scot., North England. (formerly) any stiff grass or sedge.
- British Dialect. a moor; heath; tract of uncultivated, grassy land, used as a pasture or hunting preserve.
bent
1/ ²úÉ›²Ô³Ù /
adjective
- not straight; curved
- foll by on fixed (on a course of action); resolved (to); determined (to)
- slang.
- dishonest; corrupt
- (of goods) stolen
- crazy; mad
- homosexual
noun
- personal inclination, propensity, or aptitude
- capacity of endurance (esp in the phrase to the top of one's bent )
- civil engineering a framework placed across a structure to stiffen it
bent
2/ ²úÉ›²Ô³Ù /
noun
- short for bent grass
- a stalk of bent grass
- archaic.any stiff grass or sedge
- dialect.heath or moorland
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bent1
Origin of bent2
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bent1
Idioms and Phrases
- bent (out of shape), Informal. angry or upset: Also bent up.
I like that you can share your thoughts on stuff and not get bent out of shape if I disagree.
I don’t know why you’re so bent—I’m just a couple minutes late.
Example Sentences
Or, as has happened increasingly in the last year, they can be sabotaged by state actors and terrorists bent on disrupting the political, social and financial rhythms of an already turbulent world.
A metal public phone box is bent out of shape, its sign dangling as it probably has for years.
Both Lennon and Khalil are political activists singled out by Republican administrations bent on stymying individuals who publicly protested their policies, even if it means ignoring the Constitution.
"One common response to fear is fight-or-flight. When it comes to policy, the flight response is often to hide and do nothing, which fits comfortably with the conservative bent toward not changing social policy."
He is a boring, boorish grifter hell bent on declaring this the “Golden Age†of America by totally destroying it.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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