bent meaning
EN
[bɛnt] 
US WBent
- Bent may refer to:
- NounPLbentsSUF-ent
- An inclination or talent.
- He had a natural bent for painting.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- His mind was of a technical bent.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- the bent of a bow
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- An inclination or talent.
- Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of bend.
- simple past tense and past participle of bend.
- AdjectiveCOMbenterCOMmore bentSUPbentestSUPmost bent
- (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly Britain) Homosexual.
- Determined or insistent.
- He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
- They were bent on mischief.
- Of a person, leading a life of crime.
- SLA (soccer) inaccurate at shooting.
- That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
- COL (chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- SLA High from using both marijuana and alcohol.
- Man, I am so bent right now!
- (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The impact was so strong, it bent the bar into a v.
- ... portrait of a gentleman bent on reforming the world — a Utopographer, the author calls him —by name Mr. Sempack.
- As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Meaning of bent for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "bent" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Verb forms
- Irregular verb forms
- Irregular past participles
- Irregular simple past forms
- Irregular past participles
- Participles
- Past participles
- Past participles
- Verb simple past forms
- Irregular verb forms
- Verb forms
- Adjectives
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