different between twisted vs tortuose

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

See tortuous.

Adjective

tortuose (comparative more tortuose, superlative most tortuose)

1. wreathed; twisted; winding
   • 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants

     Crust tartareous or leprose uneven pulverulent, Apothecia roundish dissimilar waved plaited tortuose and variously expanded in the disk

References

• tortuose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Interlingua

Adjective

tortuose (not comparable)

1. tortuose, tortuous (twisted)

Italian

Adjective

tortuose

1. feminine plural of tortuoso

Latin

Adjective

tortu?se

1. vocative masculine singular of tortu?sus

References

• tortuose in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tortuose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette