BENTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and 中期英語 bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of 中期英語 benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend +‎ -t.

動詞

bent

1. simple past and past participle of bend

形容詞

bent (comparative benter or more bent, superlative bentest or most bent)

1. Folded or dented out of its usual shape.

   Synonym: crooked

2. (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.

   Synonym: crooked

   • 2026 August 4, Rob Beschizza, “16 felony charges for LAPD officer who recorded colleagues making racist, sexist and homophobic remarks”, in BoingBoing‎, retrieved 4 August 2026:

     To say LAPD has a history of protecting bent cops and punishing honest ones is an insult to the annual drumbeat of new scandals.

3. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.

   Synonyms: queer; see also Thesaurus:homosexual

   • 2019 January 22, Joe Sommerlad, “The reasons why Bohemian Rhapsody faced such a massive backlash”, in The Independent‎:

     Asked bluntly by Julie Webb of the NME whether he was “bent” in December 1974, Freddie answered evasively: “You're a crafty cow. […] ”

4. (with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.

   Synonym: hell-bent

   He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.

   They were bent on mischief.

   • 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     […] in the ape posse, bent on vengeance, traversing landscapes clothed in snow and bristling with California red fir and silver pine, spooking human stragglers, and running across fresh graves as they search for the nameless colonel and try to piece together why the humans are killing each other.

5. (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.

   Near-synonym: butthurt

   She was bent about "certain kinds of people" having civil rights; she wanted to roll those back.

6. (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
7. (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.

   That shot was so bent it left the pitch.

8. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
9. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.

   Man, I am so bent right now!

派生語

関連する語

• (determined): hell-bent

名詞

bent (plural bents)

1. An inclination or talent.

   He had a natural bent for painting.

   the top of one's bent

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 384:

     They fool me to the top of my bent.

   • 1985 September 22, John Crowley, “St. Paul Meets Nero”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     “The Kingdom of the Wicked” is not Mr. Burgess at the top of his bent. It is not schlock.

2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.

   His mind was of a technical bent.

3. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.

   the bent of a bow

   • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematicall Magick. Or, The Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanicall Geometry. […], London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Sa[muel] Gellibrand […], →OCLC:

     the force they have in the discharge , according to several bents

4. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent, / The temple stood of Mars armipotent

5. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
   • a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:

     bents and turns of the matter

6. (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
   1. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
   2. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
7. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
   • 1707, John Norris, Practical Discourses Upon the Beatitudes of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.:

     the full bent and stress of the soul

同意語

• (an inclination or talent): disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensity, see also Thesaurus:predilection

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 bent, benet, from 古期英語 *beonot (attested only in place-names and personal names), from Proto-West Germanic *binut (“reed, rush”), of uncertain origin.

名詞

bent (countable and uncountable, plural bents)

1. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia, published 1810, page 124:

     His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 121:

     Gunga Dass gave me a double handful of dried bents which I thrust down the mouth of the lair to the right of his, and followed myself, feet foremost [...].

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent.

2. Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
3. A grassy area, grassland.
   • c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase

     Bowmen bickered upon the bent.

4. Old dried stalks of grasses.

派生語

参照

• “bent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• bent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia