Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Twisted; wreathed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Twisted; wreathed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
twisted ,wreathed
Etymologies
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Latin torquere - to twist. Sometimes attributed to Shakespeare.
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Examples
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bryan: Vastidity is a noun, not an adjective; if you're going to say "...soilure, tortive, and vastidity, which mean, as one might expect, staining, twisted, and..." you have to finish with a grammatically parallel form, in this case "bigness" or the like.
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