Definition of bent

"bent" in the noun sense

1. bent, set

a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way

"the set of his mind was obvious"

2. bent, bent grass, bent-grass

grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens

3. bent

an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges

4. bent, knack, hang

a special way of doing something

"he had a bent for it"

"he had a special knack for getting into trouble"

"he couldn't get the hang of it"

"bent" in the verb sense

1. bend, flex

form a curve

"The stick does not bend"

2. bend

change direction

"The road bends"

3. flex, bend, deform, twist, turn

cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form

"bend the rod"

"twist the dough into a braid"

"the strong man could turn an iron bar"

4. crouch, stoop, bend, bow

bend one's back forward from the waist on down

"he crouched down"

"She bowed before the Queen"

"The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"

5. deflect, bend, turn away

turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest

6. flex, bend

bend a joint

"flex your wrists"

"bend your knees"

"bent" in the adjective sense

1. bent, bent on, dead set, out to

fixed in your purpose

"bent on going to the theater"

"dead set against intervening"

"out to win every event"

2. bended, bent

used of the back and knees stooped

"on bended knee"

"with bent (or bended) back"

3. bent, crumpled, dented

of metal e.g.

"bent nails"

"a car with a crumpled front end"

"dented fenders"

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Quotations for bent

Bows too long bent grow weak. [ Proverb ]

Noblest minds are easiest bent. [ Homer ]

He is divinely bent on meditation. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who does know the bent of woman's fantasy. [ Spenser ]

O woman, woman, when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend. [ Homer ]

Who does not know the bent of woman's fancy? [ Spenser ]

But inborn worth that fortune can control,
New strung and stiffer bent her softer soul.
The heroine assumed the woman's place;
Confirmed her mind, and fortified her face. [ Dryden ]

Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined. [ Pope ]

'Tis education forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. [ Alexander Pope ]

Bent over her babe, her eye dissolved in dew;
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew. [ John Langhorne ]

'Tis midnight now. The bent and broken moon,
Battered and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven. [ Joaquin Miller ]

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where,
And when, and how thy business may be done,
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on. [ George Herbert ]

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [ Seneca ]

The little babe up in his arms he bent, who with sweet pleasure and bold blandishment 'gan smile. [ Spenser ]

True merit, wherever found, is ever modest, just as the well-filled heads of grain are always bent. [ Charles Dickens ]

Rigour pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good; as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

From yon blue heaven above us bent, the grand old gardener and his wife smile at the claims of long descent. [ Tennyson ]

You must say and do nothing against the bent of your genius, (i.e. in default of the necessary inspiration.) [ Horace ]

The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of women is sooner lost than that of men. [ Jean Paul ]

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. [ Richter ]

For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. [ Cervantes ]

A true friend embraces our objects as his own. We feel another mind bent on the same end, enjoying it, ensuring it, reflecting it, and delighting in our devotion to it. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]

bent in Scrabble®

The word bent is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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bent in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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2 letter words in bent (2 words)

3 letter words in bent (4 words)

4 letter words in bent (1 word)

Word Growth involving bent

Shorter words in bent

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Longer words containing bent

absorbent absorbents nonabsorbents

absorbent absorbents preabsorbents

absorbent immunoabsorbent

absorbent nonabsorbent nonabsorbents

absorbent preabsorbent preabsorbents

absorbent shockabsorbent

absorbent superabsorbent

absorbent unabsorbent

adsorbent adsorbents

adsorbent nonadsorbent

benthal archibenthal

benthamic

benthamism

benthamite benthamites

benthic archibenthic

benthic bathybenthic

benthic epibenthic

benthic eurybenthic

benthic hemibenthic

benthic holobenthic

benthic merobenthic

benthic stenobenthic

benthoal

benthon benthonic abyssobenthonic

benthon benthonic hemibenthonic

benthon benthonic hypobenthonic

benthon benthonic pseudobenthonic

benthon benthons phytobenthons

benthon phytobenthon phytobenthons

benthopelagic

benthophyte benthophytes

benthophytic

benthos archibenthos

benthos benthoscope benthoscopes

benthos benthoses phytobenthoses

benthos epibenthos

benthos hypobenthos

benthos meiobenthos

benthos mesobenthos

benthos phytobenthos phytobenthoses

benthos pseudobenthos

benthos zoobenthos

bentley

bentonite

debenture debentures

decumbent decumbently

hellbent

immunosorbent immunosorbents

incumbent incumbents

radioallergosorbent

recumbent recumbently

terebenthene terebenthenes

unbent

zoobenthoic