English-Spanish translations for bent

• doblado
• inclinación
  El tema clave era una ligera armonización de las penas aplicables, que yo, por tener una inclinación más matemática, al principio creí insignificante, pero que legalmente es bastante significativa. The key issue was a very slight harmonisation of penalties, which I, being more of a mathematical bent, had originally thought insignificant, but legally it is of quite some significance.
• predisposición

Definition of bent

• folded, dented
• Homosexual
• Of a person) leading a life of crime
• Suffering from the bends
• An inclination or talent
• A predisposition to act or react in a particular way
• The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity
• A declivity or slope, as of a hill
• Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course
• A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing
• Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus
• Any of various stiff or reedy grasses
• A grassy area, grassland
• The old dried stalks of grasses

Examples

• He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
• They were bent on mischief.
• That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
• Man, I am so bent right now!
• He had a natural bent for painting.
• His mind was of a technical bent.
• the bent of a bow

Related words

• absorbent
• incumbent
• benthos
• debenture
• bentgrass
• bentonite
• benthic
• Bentley
• accumbent