Bent

Verb
bent



Adjective

 * 1)  folded, dented
 * 2)  Homosexual.
 * 3) Determined or insistent.
 * 4) Of a person leading a life of crime.
 * 5)  inaccurate at shooting
 * That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
 * 1)  Suffering from the bends
 * 2) high from using both marijuana and alcohol.
 * Man, I am so bent right now!

Synonyms

 * crooked
 * queer

Related terms

 * hellbent

Noun

 * 1) An inclination or talent.
 * He had a natural bent for painting.
 * 1) A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
 * His mind was of a technical bent.

Synonyms

 * disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensity

Noun

 * 1) Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
 * 2) * 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society 2005, p. 121:
 * Gunga Dass gave me a double handful of dried bents which I thrust down the mouth of the lair to the right of his, and followed myself, feet foremost [...].
 * 1) *1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, pp. 277-8:
 * Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent.
 * 1) A grassy area, grassland.