different between twisted vs tortive

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tw?st?d/

Verb

twisted

1. simple past tense and past participle of twist

Adjective

twisted (comparative more twisted, superlative most twisted)

1. Contorted.
2. Wound spirally.
3. Mentally disturbed or unsound.

   The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath.

4. Under the influence of multiple intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (contorted): pretzelled
• (wound spirally): coiled
• (mentally disturbed): deranged, disturbed, perverted, sick, warped
• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk or Thesaurus:stoned

Translations

Anagrams

• Dewitts

English

Etymology

From Latin torquere (“to twist”). Sometimes attributed to Shakespeare.

Adjective

tortive (comparative more tortive, superlative most tortive)

1. Twisted; wreathed.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene III

     As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap

     Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain

     Tortive and errant from his course of growth.