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# twisty

adjective (twisty, twistier, twistiest)

«twisty» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Twisty means full of twists and bends, like a twisty road or path. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#m1)
2. A twisty story or plot has many surprising turns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#m2)
3. Describing a crooked, sly or wicked-looking smile. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life it describes roads, paths, slides and hair. In stories it describes plots full of surprises. Phrases: a twisty road, twisty plot, twisty and turny.

### Examples

- The road up the mountain is very twisty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x1)
- Our water slide was long and twisty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x2)
- The book had a twisty plot with a surprise ending. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x3)
- Twisty paths wound through the woods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x4)
- She has twisty curls. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x5)
- The twisty lane made me feel car-sick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x6)
- “You are done for, indeed,” said Cuillen, and she smiled a hairy and twisty and fangy smile that almost finished Cona’n. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x7)

### Note

Informal. Comparative twistier, superlative twistiest. Similar: winding, bendy, windy (said WINE-dee for roads).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «twisty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«twisty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/twisty.html) on Mova free.