ALL meanings of bent
bent
B b - adjective bent If an object is bent, it is damaged and no longer has its correct shape. 3
- adjective bent If a person is bent, their body has become curved because of old age or disease. 3
- adjective bent If someone is bent on doing something, especially something harmful, they are determined to do it. 3
- singular noun bent If you have a bent for something, you have a natural ability to do it or a natural interest in it. 3
- singular noun bent If someone is of a particular bent, they hold a particular set of beliefs. 3
- adjective bent If you say that someone in a position of responsibility is bent, you mean that they are dishonest or do illegal things. 3
- adjective bent Homosexuals are sometimes described as bent. 3
- adjective bent not straight; curved 3
- adjective bent fixed (on a course of action); resolved (to); determined (to) 3
- adjective bent dishonest; corrupt 3
- adjective bent (of goods) stolen 3
- adjective bent crazy; mad 3
- adjective bent homosexual 3
- noun bent personal inclination, propensity, or aptitude 3
- noun bent capacity of endurance (esp in the phrase to the top of one's bent) 3
- noun bent a framework placed across a structure to stiffen it 3
- noun bent a stalk of bent grass 3
- noun bent any stiff grass or sedge 3
- noun bent heath or moorland 3
- abbreviation BENT bend1 3
- adjective bent made curved or crooked; not straight 3
- adjective bent strongly inclined or determined 3
- adjective bent set in a course; bound 3
- adjective bent dishonest; crooked 3
- adjective bent eccentric; odd 3
- noun bent an inclination; tendency 3
- noun bent a natural leaning or tendency; propensity 3
- noun bent a framework transverse to the length of a structure, for supporting lateral as well as vertical loads 3
- noun bent any of a genus (Agrostis) of dense, low-growing perennial grasses that spread by putting out runners and are often used for lawns and golf greens 3
- noun bent the stiff flower stalk of certain grasses 3
- noun bent a heath; moor 3
- noun bent Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend. 3
- adjective bent curved, not straight 1
- noun bent inclination 1
- adjective bent corrupt 1
- adjective bent gay 1
- adjective bent stolen 1
- adjective bent crazy 1
- noun bent grass 1
- noun bent grass: one stalk 1
- noun bent sedge, grass 1
- noun bent moorland 1
- adjective bent curved; crooked: a bent bow; a bent stick. 1
- adjective bent determined; set; resolved (usually followed by on): to be bent on buying a new car. 1
- adjective bent Chiefly British Slang. morally crooked; corrupt. stolen: bent merchandise. homosexual. 1
- noun bent the act of bending. 1
- noun bent something that bends; curve; crook: a bend in the road; a bend in the curtain rod. 1
- noun bent Nautical. any of various loops or knots for joining the ends of two ropes or the like, or for joining the end of a rope or the like to some other object. 1
- noun bent bends, Nautical. thick planking immediately below the waterways of a wooden vessel. the wales of a vessel. 1
- noun bent the bends, aeroembolism (def 2). 1