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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented;
- Example: "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"
- Example: "a perverted translation of the poem"
[syn: distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Twist \Twist\ (tw[i^]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Twisting.] [OE. twisten, AS. twist a rope, as made of two (twisted) strands, fr. twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. tvistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See Twice, Two.] 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. [1913 Webster] Twist it into a serpentine form. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author. [1913 Webster] 3. To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft. [1913 Webster] 4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. "Longing to twist bays with that ivy." --Waller. [1913 Webster] There are pillars of smoke twisted about with wreaths of flame. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster] 5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns. [1913 Webster] 6. To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up. [1913 Webster] Was it not to this end That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Twisted \Twist"ed\, a. Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. [1913 Webster] Twisted curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. Twisted surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the consecutive positions of the line shall not be in one plane; a warped surface. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

twisted adj 1: 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" [syn: distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

219 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, xenophobic