adjective
- Aggressively self-assured.
- usage: "an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act"
- synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive
Assertive and Bent
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noun
- A relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way.
- usage: "the set of his mind was obvious"
- synonyms: set
- Grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens.
- synonyms: bent grass, bent-grass
- An area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges.
- A special way of doing something.
- usage: "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it"
verb
- Form a curve.
- usage: "The stick does not bend"
- Change direction.
- usage: "The road bends"
- synonyms: bend
- Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form.
- usage: "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar"
- Bend one's back forward from the waist on down.
- usage: "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
- Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest.
- Bend a joint.
- usage: "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees"
adjective
- Fixed in your purpose.
- usage: "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event"
- Used of the back and knees; stooped.
- usage: "on bended knee"; "with bent (or bended) back"
- synonyms: bended
- Of metal e. G..
- usage: "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders"
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- (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
- of Bend.
- (a.&p.p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
- (a.&p.p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
- (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
- imp. & p. p. of Bend.
- (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- (v.) The state of being curved, crooked or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
- (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
- (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
- (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, especially Agrostis vulgaris or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, especially in America.
- (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
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