contortionate

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adjective

contorted or contorting

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Meanings

adjectivecontortionate (comparative more contortionate, superlative most 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

Origin

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

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APA

contortionate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contortionate

MLA

“contortionate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contortionate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “contortionate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contortionate.

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