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bent

bent is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as adjective & participial adjectivedjectiveectivest participial adjectivedjectiveectiverticiple, verb, noun, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Bend. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 20 senses

Definitions

  1. 1

    of Bend

  2. 2

    imp. & p. p. of Bend.

  3. 3adjective & participial adjectivedjectiveectivest participial adjectivedjectiveectiverticiple

    Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

  4. 4adjective & participial adjectivedjectiveectivest participial adjectivedjectiveectiverticiple

    Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

  5. 5verb

    The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.

  6. 6verb

    A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

  7. 7verb

    A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.

  8. 8verb

    Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

  9. 9verb

    A transverse frame of a framed structure.

  10. 10verb

    Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

  11. 11noun

    A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.

  12. 12noun

    A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.

  13. 13noun

    Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

  14. 14noun

    a special way of doing something

    "he had a bent for it"

    "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"

    Synonyms

    hangknack
  15. 15noun

    a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way

    "the set of his mind was obvious"

    Synonyms

    set
  16. 16noun

    an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges

  17. 17noun

    grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens

  18. 18adjective

    of metal e.g.

    "bent nails"

    "a car with a crumpled front end"

    Synonyms

    crumpleddented
  19. 19adjective

    used of the back and knees; stooped

    "on bended knee"

    "with bent (or bended) back"

    Synonyms

    bended
  20. 20adjective

    fixed in your purpose

    "bent on going to the theater"

    "dead set against intervening"

Synonyms

hangknacksetcrumpleddentedbended

Common word forms

bentsbenting

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