warped

[wawrpt]

adjective

1. bent or twisted out of shape, especially from a flat or straight form.

   A couple of warped planks made a sort of rickety footbridge from the sidewalk to the door.

2. bent or turned from the natural, normal, or true direction or character.

   This manipulative behavior comes from the warped relationship she had with her over-controlling mother.

3. distorted from the truth, fact, true meaning or interpretation, etc.; biased; false.

   Unfortunately you can always find a huge number of websites that will support any warped worldview your anxiety presents you with.

4. Aeronautics.,  (of a wing or other airfoil) curved or bent at the end to promote equilibrium or to secure lateral control.

   A warped wing also shows significant improvement in the aircraft’s lift-to-drag ratio.

5. Agriculture.,  (of land) fertilized by flooding with water that deposits alluvial matter.

   Water management systems evolved to bring nutrients to fields—as in rice paddies, but also in the water meadows and warped fields of Europe.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of warp.

Other Word Forms

• unwarped adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of warped¹

First recorded in 1425–75; warp ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; warp ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

He added: "Your thought processes were and remain warped but you knew what you were doing was criminal."

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They used advanced three-dimensional computer simulations to reproduce the motion of matter and magnetic fields in the warped spacetime surrounding black holes.

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At a nearby table, other students carefully dismantle warped albums or disinfect and clean faded photographs, which are then hung to dry.

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The heavenly finger’s subtle specter of warped Christianity gets emphatic in a 1917 pietà designed by J. Maxwell Miller to celebrate Confederate women in Maryland.

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Then in 2020, Gaia uncovered that this warped disc slowly oscillates over time, similar to the motion of a spinning top.

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