bent
Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
Adjective 4 meanings
Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
Corrupt, dishonest.
Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
“He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.”
Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
“Near-synonym: butthurt”
Noun 4 meanings
An inclination or talent.
“He had a natural bent for painting.”
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
“His mind was of a technical bent.”
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
“the bent of a bow”
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
Etymology
From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
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BENT at a glance
BENT has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (B 3 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,087 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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