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twisted
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective twisted has 1 sense
- twisted(s = adj.all) distorted, misrepresented, perverted - having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"
CIDE DICTIONARY
twisted, a.
Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
twisted
Byzantine, abnormal, affected, afflicted, agonized, anamorphous, anomalous, antiblack, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, asymmetric, balled up, bastard, bent, biased, blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, chauvinistic, checked, cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, contorted, convoluted, convulsed, cooked, counterfeit, counterfeited, crabbed, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, crooked, crotchety, crucified, crumpled, crunched, daedal, defaced, defective, deformed, deviant, deviative, devious, different, disfigured, distorted, distressed, divergent, doctored, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dotty, dressed up, dummy, eccentric, elaborate, embellished, embrangled, embroidered, entangled, erratic, ersatz, exceptional, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, faulty, feigned, fey, fictitious, fictive, flaky, flawed, fouled up, freakish, funny, garbled, harrowed, hurt, hurting, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, illegitimate, imitation, implicated, in distress, in pain, influenced, interested, intricate, involuted, involved, irregular, jaundiced, junky, keloidal, kinked, kinky, knotted, know-nothing, kooky, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, lacerated, lopsided, loused up, maggoty, make-believe, man-made, many-faceted, marred, martyred, martyrized, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, misquoted, misrepresented, mixed up, mock, mucked up, multifarious, nonobjective, nonsymmetric, nutty, odd, oddball, on the rack, one-sided, opinionated, pained, partial, partisan, peculiar, perplexed, perverted, phony, pimpled, pimply, pinchbeck, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, quirky, racist, racked, ramified, roundabout, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, screwball, screwed up, screwy, self-styled, sexist, sham, shoddy, simulated, singular, slanted, snarled, so-called, soi-disant, split, sprung, spurious, strained, strange, subtle, suffering, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed, synthetic, tangled, tangly, tin, tinsel, titivated, tormented, tortuous, tortured, ultranationalist, unauthentic, unconventional, under the harrow, undetached, undispassionate, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, unsymmetric, wacky, warped, whimsical, wounded, wrung, xenophobicROGET THESAURUS
twisted
Convolution
N convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, tortile, tortive, wavy, undated, undulatory, circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine, serpent, anguill, vermiform, vermicular, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid, sigmoid, sigmoidal, spiriferous, spiroid, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot.
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