gekromd

Gekromd is a Dutch adjective meaning bent or curved. It is used to describe objects or body parts that are not straight, such as a gekromde rug (a curved back) or gekromde buis (a bent tube). The term can also be used metaphorically to indicate something that is distorted or deviates from an expected shape or norm.

The word derives from the stem krom- meaning “bent” or “curved,” with the past participle suffix -d. It originated in Dutch from the verb krommen, “to bend.” It has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as German gekrümmt, and is related to English descriptions of curvature in a broad sense.

In use, gekromd appears in medical, engineering, and everyday language. It commonly describes physical forms: bodies, tools, or structures that lack straightness. In medical contexts it may refer to anatomical curvature; in engineering, to bent components; in general speech, to anything considered irregularly bent or distorted. The word is typically used predicatively or attributively: the rug is gekromd, a gekromde rug.

In translation, gekromd is generally rendered as “bent” or “curved.” In more figurative contexts it can convey deviation from a straight or expected line, such as describing a policy or argument as gekromd if such usage occurs in Dutch discourse.

Related terms include krom (bend), krommen (to bend), kromming (curvature), and gebogen (bent).