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| Main Entry: | twisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | crooked |
| Synonyms: | awry, bent, gnarled, tangled, braided, contorted, curled, twined, twisting, wrenched |
| Antonyms: | even, straight |
| Main Entry: | twisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | perverted |
| Synonyms: | awry, confused, corrupt, distorted, perplexing, perverse, puzzling, sick, unsound |
| Antonyms: | clear, simple, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | twist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | curl, spin |
| Synonyms: | coil, contort, encircle, entwine, intertwine, screw, spiral, sprain, squirm, swivel, turn, twine, twirl, warp, weave, wiggle, wind, wrap, wrench, wriggle, wring, writhe, zigzag, corkscrew, rick, turn around, wrap around, wreathe |
| Antonyms: | straighten, uncurl, untwist |
| Main Entry: | twist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | alter, belie, change, color, contort, distort, falsify, garble, misstate, pervert, warp, misquote |
| Antonyms: | explain, explicate |
| Main Entry: | askew |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked |
| Synonyms: | askance, awry, bent, cockeyed*, curved, knotted, lopsided, oblique, obliquely, off-center, slanted, slanting, twisted, zigzag*, askant, aslant, buckled, catawampus, crookedly, to one side, topsy-turvey, turned, yaw ways |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bigoted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intolerant, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | biased, dogmatic, narrow, narrow-minded, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, sectarian, slanted, small-minded, twisted, unfair, chauvinistic, warped |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, fair, humanitarian, just, open-minded, tolerant, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | curved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bowed, bent |
| Synonyms: | arched, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, elliptical, round, rounded, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, sweeping, twisted, S-shaped, arced, arciform, arrondi, biflected, curvilinear, declinate, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, sigmoid, skewed, swirly, turned, twisting, twisty, wreathed |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | deformed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disfigured, distorted |
| Synonyms: | askew, awry, bent, bowed, cramped, crippled, crooked, curved, damaged, disjointed, gnarled, grotesque, irregular, knotted, maimed, malformed, misshapen, twisted, ugly, blemished, buckled, contorted, humpbacked, hunchbacked, ill-made, mangled, marred, misproportioned, out of shape, scarred, warped |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, graceful, improved, shapely, symmetrical, beautified |
| Main Entry: | depraved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, immoral |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, bad, base, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dirty*, dissolute, evil, fast*, filthy*, kinky*, lascivious, lewd, licentious, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, profligate, putrid, rotten, shameless, sinful, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vile, villainous, vitiate, wanton, wicked, dirty-minded, flagitous, gone to the dogs, vitiated, warped |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, just, moral, noble, pure, upright, virtuous, uncorrupt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deviant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abnormal, different |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bent, devious, divergent, heretical, irregular, kinky, off-key, perverse, perverted, preternatural, queer, twisted, unorthodox, untypical, variant, varying, wandering, wayward, weird, freaky, heteroclite, unrepresentative |
| Antonyms: | normal, regular, standard, usual |
| Main Entry: | dotty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy |
| Synonyms: | absurd, daft, demented, disturbed, eccentric, foolish, goofy*, loony*, nuts*, nutty, odd, peculiar, queer, ridiculous, strange, twisted, unconventional, weird, mentally unbalanced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gnarled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knotted |
| Synonyms: | bent, crooked, deformed, distorted, gnarly, knurled, leathery, rough, rugged, twisted, weather-beaten, wrinkled, contorted, out of shape, tortured |
| Antonyms: | straight, unbent, uncurled, untwisted |
| Main Entry: | incongruous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out of place; absurd |
| Synonyms: | alien, bizarre, conflicting, contradictory, discordant, disparate, distorted, divergent, extraneous, fantastic, fitful, foreign, illogical, improper, inappropriate, inapt, incoherent, incompatible, inconsistent, irreconcilable, irregular, jumbled, lopsided, rambling, twisted, unavailing, unbalanced, unbecoming, unconnected, uncoordinated, uneven, unintelligible, unpredictable, unrelated, unsuitable, unsuited, disconsonant, inapropos, incongruent, mismatched, out of keeping, shifting |
| Antonyms: | compatible, congruous, consistent, corresponding, fitting, harmonious, matched, suitable, uniform |
| Main Entry: | ironic/ironical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acrid, alert, arrogant, backbiting, biting, bitter, burlesque, caustic, clever, contemptuous, contradictory, critical, cutting, cynical, defiant, derisive, disparaging, exaggerated, implausible, incisive, incongruous, keen, mocking, mordant, pungent, quick-witted, ridiculous, sardonic, satirical, scathing, sharp, sneering, spicy, trenchant, twisted, witty, wry, chaffing, double-edged, jibing, paradoxical, satiric, scoffing, uncomplimentary |
| Antonyms: | considerate, deferential |
| Main Entry: | malformed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distorted |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, crooked, deformed, grotesque, irregular, misshapen, twisted, contorted, warped |
| Antonyms: | perfect, regular, shapely, undistorted |
| Main Entry: | matted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tangled |
| Synonyms: | disordered, kinky, knotted, tousled, twisted, rumpled, snarled, uncombed |
| Antonyms: | unknotted, untangled |
| Main Entry: | misshapen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deformed |
| Synonyms: | askew, awry, bent, bowed, crooked, curved, damaged, disjointed, distorted, grotesque, irregular, malformed, twisted, ugly, blemished, buckled, contorted, disfigured, ill-made, mangled, marred, out of shape, unshapely, warped |
| Main Entry: | perverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, evil |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, defiled, depraved, deviant, deviating, distorted, foreign, grotesque, impaired, kinky*, misguided, monstrous, queer, sick, tainted, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vitiate, wicked, abused, contorted, misused, outraged, polluted, vitiated, warped |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, healthy, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sarcastic, distorted |
| Synonyms: | askew, awry, crooked, cynical, deformed, droll, dry, ironic, mocking, sardonic, twisted, uneven, aslant, contorted, warped |
| Antonyms: | straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | zigzag |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving side to side |
| Synonyms: | askew, awry, bent, crooked, devious, diagonal, erratic, inclined, indirect, irregular, jagged, meandering, oblique, rambling, serrated, sinuous, sloping, tortuous, transverse, twisted, undulating, winding, crinkled, fluctuating, oscillating, snaking, twisting, waggling |
| Antonyms: | straight |
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