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| 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 |
| Main Entry: | malformation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deformity |
| Synonyms: | abberation, abnormality, defect, disfigurement, impairment, injury, malconformation, misshape, monstrosity, mutation |
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| Main Entry: | deformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
askew, awry, bandy, bandy, bloodshot, bobtailed, bow, bunchbacked, claudicant, club, cratered, crooked, crooked, crooked as a rainbow, curtailed of one's fair proportions, decollated, deformed, discolored, distorted, foveate, freckled, gaunt, gnarled, grotesque, hip, hipshot, hunchbacked, ill, imperfect, injured, irregular, knock, mammoxed, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, not straight, not true, on one side, out of shape, pitted, pouty, round, skew, splay, taliped, uloid, unsymmetric, wapperjawed, warped, wry, wry
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| Concept: | [Irregularity of form.] Distortion. |
| Category: | 1. General form |
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-nouns
distortion, detortion, contortion; twist, crookedness (obliquity); grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis; ugliness; talipes; teratology.
-verbs
distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.
-adjectives
distorted; out of shape, irregular, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy (short); gaunt (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.
-adverbs
all manner of ways.
-phrases
crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].
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| Antonyms: | symmetry |
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