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twisted
CIDE DICTIONARY
twisted, 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.
THESAURUS
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, xenophobicROGET THESAURUS
twisted
Convolution
N convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, tortile, tortive, wavy, undated, undulatory, circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine, serpent, anguill, vermiform, vermicular, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid, sigmoid, sigmoidal, spiriferous, spiroid, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot.For further exploring for "twisted" in Webster Dictionary Online