Word Meanings - BENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. & p. p. of Bend.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BENT)

• Affection
• Influence
• condition
• state
• inclination
• bent
• mood
• humor
• feeling
• love
• desire
• propensity
• Aim
• Tendency
• intent
• aspiration
• drift
• object
• scope
• goal
• purpose
• mark
• end
• design
• intention
• Awry
• Crooked
• aslant
• askew
• atwist
• carved
• distorted
• twisted
• wrong
• Bent
• incurved
• angular
• deformed
• bowed
• disfigured
• turned
• curved
• awry
• anfractuous
• tortuous
• underhanded
• Prone
• Disposed
• inclined
• tending
• apt
• recumbent
• prostrate
• flat

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BENT)

• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to BENT)

• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE