twisted
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtwɪstɪd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪstɪd
Adjective
twisted (comparative more twisted, superlative most twisted)
- Contorted.
- Wound spirally.
- Mentally disturbed or unsound.
- The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
- I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.
- Under the influence of multiple intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Misunderstood.
- Don't get this twisted. Just because I don't hate you doesn't mean we're friends.
- 1958, John Clellon Holmes, The Horn, Open Road Media, published 2015, →ISBN:
- "Man is he high!" someone whispered. "Man, he's twisted! But on what? On what?"
- 1971, Hunter S[tockton] Thompson, “Welcome to Las Vegas”, in The Great Shark Hunt, Simon and Schuster, published 2011, →ISBN, page 531:
- Very soon, I knew, we would both be completely twisted.
Synonyms
- (contorted): pretzelled
- (wound spirally): coiled
- (mentally disturbed): deranged, disturbed, perverted, sick, warped
- (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk or Thesaurus:stoned
Derived terms
Translations
contorted
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wound spirally
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mentally disturbed or unsound
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