twisted

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwɪstɪd/

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Verb

twisted

1. simple past tense and past participle of twist

Adjective

twisted (comparative more twisted, superlative most twisted)

1. Contorted.
2. Wound spirally.
3. Mentally disturbed or unsound.

   The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath.

4. Under the influence of multiple intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 1958, Holmes, John Clellon, The Horn‎^[1], Open Road Media, published 2015, →ISBN:

     "Man is he high!" someone whispered. "Man, he's twisted! But on what? On what?"

   • 1971, Thompson, Hunter S[tockton], “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

Translations

contorted

• Catalan: tort (ca)
• Finnish: vääristynyt
• French: tordu (fr)
• Galician: torto (gl), retorto
• German:
• Greek:

  Ancient: στρεβλός (streblós)

• Hindi: टेढ़ा (ṭeṛhā)
• Irish: casta

• Italian: contorto (it)
• Latin: tortus
• Portuguese: confusa (pt)
• Russian: скру́ченный (ru) (skrúčennyj), кру́ченный (ru) (krúčennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: toinnte
• Spanish: torcido (es)
• Swedish: vriden (sv), förvriden (sv)
• Tagalog: balikuko, baluktot

wound spirally

• Czech: kroucený m
• Estonian: keerdunud
• Finnish: kiero (fi), kieroutunut
• French: vrillé (fr)
• Irish: casta

• Latin: tortilis
• Russian: (e.g. road) изви́листый (ru) (izvílistyj), кру́ченный (ru) (krúčennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: toinnte
• Swedish: skruvad (sv), tvinnad (sv), vriden (sv), snodd (sv), virad

mentally disturbed or unsound

• Dutch: verwrongen (nl)
• Finnish: kiero (fi), kieroutunut
• French: tordu (fr) m

• Russian: искаженный (ru) (iskažennyj), извращённый (ru) (izvraščónnyj)
• Spanish: retorcido (es)
• Swedish: skruvad (sv) (colloquial), vriden (sv) (colloquial)

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