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# twisty

«twisty» in Mova's school dictionary: **full of twists and bends, like a twisty road or path** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (twisty, twistier, twistiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Twisty means full of twists and bends, like a twisty road or path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#m1)

2) A twisty story or plot has many surprising turns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#m2)

3) Describing a crooked, sly or wicked-looking smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x1)
- Our water slide was long and twisty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x2)
- The book had a twisty plot with a surprise ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x3)
- Twisty paths wound through the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x4)
- She has twisty curls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/#x5)
- The twisty lane made me feel car-sick. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «twisty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twisty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.