bent

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

bent [bent bents] adjective, noun BrE [bent] NAmE [bent]
see also ↑bend
adjective
1. not straight
•a piece of bent wire
• Do this exercise with your knees bent (= not with your legs straight).
2. (of a person)not able to stand up straight, usually as a result of being old or ill/sick
•a small bent old woman
• He was bent double with laughter.
3. (BrE, informal) (of a person in authority)dishonest

Thesaurus:
bent adj.
•a piece of bent wire
•a small, bent old woman
twisted • • deformed • • crooked • • gnarled •
Opp: straight
twisted/gnarled roots/branches
deformed/gnarled hands
a twisted/crooked smile

Example Bank:
•The lamp post got bent in the crash.
•The man shuffled back a few paces, bent almost double.
•Do this exercise with your knees bent.
•He tried to pick the lock with a piece of bent wire.
•She whirled around to see a small, bent old woman leaning on a cane.
Idioms: ↑bent on on doing something ▪ ↑get bent out of shape
 
noun usually singular ~ (for sth)
a natural skill or interest in sth
• She has a bent for mathematics.
•people of a philosophical bent

Example Bank:
•He showed a literary bent from a young age.
•She has an artistic bent.
•a child with a scientific bent
•a natural bent for languages
•She had a bent for administration.
•Some students have no natural bent for literature at all.

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  crumpled, dented, bended, bent on(p), dead set(p), out to(p), knack, hang, bent grass, bent-grass, set