Twisted vs Twisting - What's the difference?
twisted | twisting |
(twist)
contorted
wound spirally
Mentally disturbed or unsound.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 23, author=Alexander Star, title=Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading, work=New York Times
, passage=Tracing Emerson’s famous twistings and turnings, Mr. Poirier argued that even when he seemed most complacent
* 1984 , Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
Having many twists
As verbs the difference between twisted and twisting
is that twisted is (twist) while twisting is .As adjectives the difference between twisted and twisting
is that twisted is contorted while twisting is having many twists.As a noun twisting is
.twisted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)twisting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation
- She was oblivious of all around her, and her facial twistings and scrunchings were droll.
Adjective
(head)- The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.