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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disfigurement, distortion |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, asymmetry, buckle, contortion, corruption, crookedness, damage, defacement, defect, depravity, evil, grossness, hideousness, impairment, injury, irregularity, knot, malconformation, malformation, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, repulsiveness, ugliness, unattractiveness, unnaturalness, unsightliness, warp |
| Antonyms: | beauty, grace, shapeliness |
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| Main Entry: | abnormality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being different from standard or norm |
| Synonyms: | aberrancy, aberration, anomalism, anomaly, atypicalness, bizarreness, deformity, deviance, deviancy, deviation, eccentricity, exception, extraordinariness, flaw, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, preternaturalness, singularity, strangeness, uncommonness, unnaturalness, unusualness, weirdness |
| Antonyms: | normality, normalness, sameness, standard |
| Main Entry: | birth defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congenital abnormality |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital malformation, deformity, disability, mutation |
| Main Entry: | blemish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flaw |
| Synonyms: | beauty spot, birthmark, blackhead, blister, bloom*, blot, blot on the landscape, blotch, blur, brand, bruise, bug*, catch, chip, cicatrix, defacement, defect, deformity, dent, discoloration, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, eyesore, fault, freckle, hickey, imperfection, impurity, lentigo, lump, macula, maculation, mark, mole, nevus, nodule, patch, pimple, pock, pockmark, scar, second, sight, smudge, snag, speck, speckle, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, vice, wart, whitehead, zit |
| Antonyms: | adornment, decoration, embellishment, ornament |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distortion, mutilation |
| Synonyms: | anamorphosis, crookedness, deformation, deformity, dislocation, grimace, malformation, misproportion, misshapement, pout, twist, ugliness, unsightliness, wryness |
| Antonyms: | beauty, smoothness |
| Main Entry: | defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blemish, imperfection |
| Synonyms: | birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, marring, mistake, patch, rift, rough spot, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, unsoundness, vice, want, weak point, weakness |
| Antonyms: | advantage, improvement, perfection, strength |
| Main Entry: | eyesore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mess, ugliness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, blemish, blight, blot, blot on landscape, deformity, disfigurement, disgrace, distortion, dump, horror, monstrosity, sight, ugly thing |
| Antonyms: | beauty, eyeful, sight |
| Main Entry: | imperfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flaw |
| Synonyms: | blemish, bug*, catch, defect, deficiency, deformity, demerit, disfigurement, failing, fallibility, fault, foible, frailty, glitch*, gremlin, inadequacy, incompleteness, infirmity, insufficiency, peccadillo, problem, shortcoming, sin, stain, taint, weak point, weakness |
| Antonyms: | excellence, flawlessness, perfection, purity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | monstrosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freak |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, atrocity, deformity, dreadfulness, enormity, eyesore, freakishness, frightfulness, grotesqueness, heinousness, hideousness, horror, monster, mutant, mutation |
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