BENT meaning: Curved or angled from straightness

We found 44 dictionaries that define the word bent:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

bent: Merriam-Webster
bent, bent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bent, bent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bent: Collins English Dictionary
bent: Vocabulary.com
Bent, Bent, ben't, bent, bent: Wordnik
bent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
bent: Wiktionary
bent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bent: Infoplease Dictionary
Bent, bent: Dictionary.com
bent (1), bent (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
bent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Bent (TV series), Bent (band), Bent (chemistry), Bent (film), Bent (magazine), Bent (play), Bent (song), Bent (structural), Bent (surname), Bent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bent: Rhymezone
bent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Bent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
bent: FreeDictionary.org
bent: Mnemonic Dictionary
bent: TheFreeDictionary.com
bent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Bent: Infoplease Dictionary
bent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
Bent (disambiguation), bent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Bent (disambiguation), bent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
bent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

baby names list (No longer online)
BENT: Acronym Finder
bent: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Bent: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

bent, bent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
bent: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

'Bent: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
▸ adjective:  (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
▸ adjective:  (with on) Determined or insistent.
▸ adjective:  (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
▸ adjective:  (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
▸ adjective:  (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
▸ adjective:  (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
▸ noun:  An inclination or talent.
▸ noun:  A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
▸ noun:  The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
▸ noun:  A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
▸ noun:  Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
▸ noun:  (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
▸ noun:  Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
▸ noun:  Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
▸ noun:  Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
▸ noun:  Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
▸ noun:  A grassy area, grassland.
▸ noun:  The old dried stalks of grasses.
▸ noun:  A surname

Similar:

bended, crooked, inclined, hang, crumpled, dead set, bowed, set, damaged, resolute, more...

Opposite:

straight, unbent, flat, aligned, level

Types:

obtuse, acute, right, reflex, more...

Phrases:

bent on, bent double, Bent Knee, hell bent, bent grass, more...

Adjectives:

natural, strong, own, little, much, practical, scientific, religious, literary, philosophical, intellectual