Dictionary Definition
twisted adj
1 wound or wrapped around something; "hair twined
around her fingers"; "bulky with twisted stitches around the edges"
[syn: twined]
2 strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old
trees with contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments
of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn: contorted, distorted]
3 having an intended meaning altered or
misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any
semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" [syn:
distorted, misrepresented, perverted]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Verb
twisted- past of twist
Adjective
twistedTranslations
contorted
- Finnish: vääristynyt
- Italian: contorto
wound spirally
- Czech: kroucený
- Finnish: kiero, kieroutunut
Mentally disturbed or unsound
- Finnish: kiero, kieroutunut
Extensive Definition
Twisted may refer to:
Music
Industry:
- Twisted Records (UK), a UK-based record label specializing in psychedelic trance
- Twisted Records (US), an American electronic music record label
Works:
- Twisted (Del Amitri album), a 1995 album by Del Amitri
- Twisted (Hallucinogen album), a 1995 goa trance album by Hallucinogen
- "Twisted" (song), a 1996 single by Keith Sweat
- "Twisted", a 1960 jazz song by
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
- "Twisted", a cover of the same song, on Joni Mitchell's album Court and Spark
- "Twisted", a cover of the same song, on Bette Midler (album)
- "Twisted", a song by Avail from their 1992 album Satiate
Other uses
- Twisted (film), a 2004 film directed by Philip Kaufman
- Twisted (2006 film), a documentary on dystonia by filmmaker Laurel Chiten
- Twisted (software), an event-driven networking framework written in Python
- "Twisted" (Voyager episode), a season two Star Trek: Voyager episode
- WarioWare: Twisted!, a 2005 game for the Game Boy Advance
- Twisted: The Game Show, a 3DO game
- Twisted (novel), by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Twisted
(book), a short story collection by crime writer Jeffery Deaver
- More Twisted, a second short story collection by Deaver
See also
twisted in Swedish: Twisted
twisted in Yiddish: צודרייט
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Byzantine, abnormal, affected, afflicted, agonized, anamorphous, anomalous, antiblack, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, asymmetric, balled up,
bastard, bent, biased, blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, chauvinistic, checked, cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, contorted, convoluted, convulsed, cooked, counterfeit, counterfeited, crabbed, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, crooked, crotchety, crucified, crumpled, crunched, daedal, defaced, defective, deformed, deviant, deviative, devious, different, disfigured, distorted, distressed, divergent, doctored, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dotty, dressed up, dummy, eccentric, elaborate, embellished, embrangled, embroidered, entangled, erratic, ersatz, exceptional, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, faulty, feigned, fey, fictitious, fictive, flaky, flawed, fouled up, freakish, funny, garbled, harrowed, hurt, hurting, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, illegitimate, imitation, implicated, in distress, in
pain, influenced,
interested, intricate, involuted, involved, irregular, jaundiced, junky, keloidal, kinked, kinky, knotted, know-nothing, kooky, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, lacerated, lopsided, loused up, maggoty, make-believe, man-made,
many-faceted, marred,
martyred, martyrized, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up,
misquoted, misrepresented, mixed up,
mock, mucked up, multifarious, nonobjective, nonsymmetric, nutty, odd, oddball, on the rack, one-sided,
opinionated,
pained, partial, partisan, peculiar, perplexed, perverted, phony, pimpled, pimply, pinchbeck, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, quirky, racist, racked, ramified, roundabout, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, screwball, screwed up,
screwy, self-styled,
sexist, sham, shoddy, simulated, singular, slanted, snarled, so-called, soi-disant,
split, sprung, spurious, strained, strange, subtle, suffering, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed, synthetic, tangled, tangly, tin, tinsel, titivated, tormented, tortuous, tortured, ultranationalist,
unauthentic,
unconventional,
under the harrow, undetached, undispassionate,
ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, unsymmetric, wacky, warped, whimsical, wounded, wrung, xenophobic