twist

Synonyms

bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, warp;

Near Antonyms

clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out;

decipher;

Related Words

misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate;

belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash;

bowdlerize, censor;

complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up);

mystify, obscure;

equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate;

Synonyms

crotchet, curiosity, eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, individualism, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, tic, trick;

Near Antonyms

conformity, sameness;

Related Words

affectation, airs;

attribute, characteristic, mark, property, trait;

custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise), way, wont;

addiction;

abnormality, neuroticism, perversion, weirdness;

disposition, genius, leaning, partiality;

bent, inclination, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn;

attitude, character, humor, identity, individuality, nature, personality, temperament;