Synonyms

warped

American

[wawrpt] / wɔrpt /

adjective

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.
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.
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.
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.
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

the simple past tense and past participle of warp.

Other Word Forms

unwarped adjective

Etymology

Origin of warped

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

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The mixture of digitally warped instrumentation that emphasizes its artificiality and cinematic string arrangements that evoke the melodrama of old Hollywood is pleasingly jarring and disorienting.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mays called “Amadeus” a “memory play,” noting that “every aspect of this production is exploring that — it’s all filtered through the warped, distorted memories and imaginings of its unreliable narrator.”

From Los Angeles Times

The collective cognitive dissonance on display in San Francisco during Super Bowl LX exposed how warped many American’s perceptions of our greatest cities are.

From Salon

The wood was split and warped and the shelves leaned at crazy angles.

From Literature

His worries were balanced by the feeling that the whole thing was nothing but a hoax—a joke being played by a weird old man with a warped sense of humor.

From Literature

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