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contortionate

contortionate adjective: contorted or contorting.

Adjective

contortionate (comparative more contortionate, superlative most contortionate)

  1. contorted or contorting
    • So it’s hard not to be amused at Nina L. Khrushcheva’s contortionate attempts to recruit him as a sociopolitical figurehead for the land of his birth in her earnest and urgent “Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics.”2008 June 29, Steve Coates, “Reading Lolita in Moscow”, in New York Times

Forms of contortionate

comparativemore contortionate
superlativemost contortionate

Origin of contortionate

From contortion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about contortionate

What does contortionate mean?
Contortionate means contorted or contorting.
What part of speech is contortionate?
Contortionate is an adjective.

Words near contortionate in the dictionary

  1. contortedness
  2. contorter
  3. contorters
  4. contorting
  5. contortion
  6. contortionate
  7. contortionism
  8. contortionist
  9. contortionistic
  10. contortionists
  11. contortions

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