bent

See also: Bent

bent - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: bĕnt, IPA: /bɛnt/

Verb

bent

  1. simple past tense and past participle of bend

Adjective

bent (comparative benter or more bent, superlative bentest or most bent)

  1. (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
  2. (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
  3. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
    • Synonyms: queer; see also homosexual
  4. Determined or insistent.
    • Synonym: hell-bent
    • He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
    • They were bent on mischief.
  5. (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
  6. (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
    • That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
  7. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
  8. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
    • Man, I am so bent right now!

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Translations

  • Azerbaijani: əyri (az)
  • Basque: makur
  • Bulgarian: огънат (bg) (ogǎnat)
  • Catalan: tort (ca)
  • Dutch: gebogen (nl)
  • Finnish: taipunut (fi), taittunut
  • French: courbé (fr)
  • Galician: torto (gl), encartado
  • Georgian: გაღუნული (gaɣunuli)
  • German: gebeugt (de), verbogen (de)
  • Greek:
  • Hungarian: hajlott (hu), görbe (hu)
  • Indonesian: bengkok (id)
  • Italian: piegato (it) m, ripiegato (it) m
  • Kabuverdianu: arkuadu, arkuóde
  • Khmer: រំពត់ (km) (rumpʊət)
  • Korean: 굽은 (gubeun)
  • Kyrgyz: шык (ky) (şık), шыктуулук (ky) (şıktuuluk), адат (ky) (adat), өнөкөт (ky) (önököt), ынта (ky) (ınta), кунт (ky) (kunt), умтулуу (ky) (umtuluu), тырышуу (ky) (tırışuu), ийри-буйру (ky) (iyri-buyru), бурулуш (ky) (buruluş), кайрылыш (ky) (kayrılış), ийретүү (iyretüü), ийрейүү (iyreyüü), кыйшайуу (ky) (kıyşayuu), эңкейиш (ky) (eŋkeyiş), бүкчүйгөн (ky) (bükçüygön), бүкчүйгөн (ky) (bükçüygön), жантайма (ky) (jantayma), кыйшык (ky) (kıyşık), ийилген (ky) (iyilgen), умтулган (ky) (umtulgan), тилек (ky) (tilek), ынтызарлык (ky) (ıntızarlık), куштарлык (ky) (kuştarlık), чабынды (ky) (çabındı), шалбаа (ky) (şalbaa), талаа (ky) (talaa), муундуу (ky) (muunduu), муунактуу (ky) (muunaktuu)
  • Latin: curvus
  • Maori: rōiho (of an old person), kōtuke, kokopa, piko, korotuke, korotuketuke
  • Maranao: bekong
  • Plautdietsch: kromm
  • Portuguese: torto (pt)
  • Quechua: wist'u
  • Romanian: gârbov (ro), îndoit (ro)
  • Russian: со́гнутый (ru) (sógnutyj), изо́гнутый (ru) (izógnutyj), гну́тый (ru) (gnútyj), криво́й (ru) (krivój), искривлённый (iskrivljónnyj)
  • Sanskrit: भुग्न (sa) (bhugna)
  • Scottish Gaelic: lùbach
  • Spanish: doblado (es)
  • Sundanese: ᮘᮤᮀᮊᮨᮀ (bingkeng)
  • Swedish: böjd (sv)
  • Thai: งอ (th) (ngɔɔ)
  • Yiddish: בייגיק (beygik), בויגיק (boygik)

Noun

bent (plural bents)

  1. An inclination or talent.
    • He had a natural bent for painting.
  2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
    • His mind was of a technical bent.
  3. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
    • the bent of a bow
  4. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  5. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  6. (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
    1. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
    2. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
  7. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

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Noun

bent (countable and uncountable, plural bents)

  1. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
  2. A grassy area, grassland.
  3. The old dried stalks of grasses.

Synonyms

(grass): bentgrass

Derived terms

Translations

bent - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bɛnt/

Verb

bent

  1. second-person singular present indicative of zijn; are.

bent - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈbɛnt]
  • Hyphenation: bent

Adverb

bent (comparative beljebb or bentebb, superlative legbeljebb or legbentebb)

  1. inside

bent - Lithuanian

Adverb

bent

  1. at least.

bent - Old Norse

Participle

bent

  1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of bendr

Verb

bent

  1. supine of benda

bent - Scots

Alternative forms

  • bynt

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbɛnt/

Noun

bent (plural bents)

  1. (archaic, 14th century) Coarse or wiry grass growing upon moorlands.
  2. (archaic, 15th century) An area covered with coarse or wiry grass; a moor.

Derived terms

bent - Turkish

Noun

bent (definite accusative bendi, plural bentler)

  1. dam
Meaning and Definition of bent
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