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say it: TWI-stid
twisted is an adjective meaning "having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented". It is pronounced /ˈtwɪstɪd/ — TWI-stid. It carries one recorded sense.
having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
“many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality”
“a perverted translation of the poem”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for twisted come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.