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twisted

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈtwɪstɪd//

Consisting of two or more threads, strands or the like intertwined; formed by twisting or twining.

adjective

  1. 1

    Consisting of two or more threads, strands or the like intertwined; formed by twisting or twining.

  2. 2

    Mentally or emotionally distorted or unsound; perverted.

    twisted sense of humor

    The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath.

    I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.

    It was almost noon, and we still had more than a hundred miles to go. They would be tough miles. Very soon, I knew, we would both be completely twisted. But there was no going back, and no time to rest. We would have to ride it out.

  3. 3

    Bent out of shape or out of place; distorted; contorted. Having the intended meaning altered or misrepresented; misunderstood.

    Don't get this twisted. Just because I don't hate you doesn't mean we're friends.

  4. 4

    Bent out of shape or out of place; distorted; contorted. Distorted or contorted by tensing the facial muscles.

  5. 5

    Under heavy influence of intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana; very intoxicated.

    Dude I’m so twisted right now.

    "Man is he high!" someone whispered. "Man, he's twisted! But on what? On what?"

  6. 6

    Having a spiral ornament inside.

  7. 7

    figurativeIntimately associated or connected; united; combined.

Etymology

The sense "intertwined" comes from twist (verb) by the late 15th century. The sense "mentally disturbed, perverted" is probably from twist (“mental peculiarity, perversion”, noun), which is attested by 1811.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of twistsimple past and past participle of twist

Forms

comparative
more twisted
superlative
most twisted
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).