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Twisted vs Tortive - What's the difference?

twisted | tortive |

As adjectives the difference between twisted and tortive

is that twisted is contorted while tortive is twisted, wreathed.

As a verb twisted

is (twist).

twisted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (twist)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • contorted
  • wound spirally
  • Mentally disturbed or unsound.

    • tortive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • twisted, wreathed
  • *c. 1602 -- , Act I, Scene III
  • *:As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap
  • *:Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain
  • *:Tortive and errant from his course of growth.