bent

Meanings

Verb

• Past of bend

Adjective

• Folded, dented.
• Corrupt, dishonest.
• Homosexual.
• Determined or insistent.
• (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
• Inaccurately aimed.
• Suffering from the bends.
• High from both marijuana and alcohol.

Noun

• An inclination or talent.
• A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
• The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
• A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
• Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
• A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
• Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
• Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
• A grassy area, grassland.
• The old dried stalks of grasses.

Related

Similar words

• crooked
• queer

Origin

• From bend + -t.
• From Middle English bent, benet, from Old English *beonet (attested only in place-names and personal names), from Proto-West Germanic *binut, of uncertain origin.