misshapen
/mɪsˈʃeɪp(ə)n
/adjective
Not having the normal or natural shape or form: misshapen fruit...
- The syndrome, which leads to a deformed or misshapen head, is caused when a baby's head is in contact with a firm surface for lengthy periods.
- Check it out in another 20 years and the likelihood is that it will be misshapen and deformed.
- The fruits are misshapen and unnatural looking, a kind of elephantine mutation of, say, cherries.
Synonyms
deformed, malformed, distorted, crooked, contorted, wry, twisted, warped, out of shape, bent, bandy, asymmetrical, irregular, misproportioned, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, disfigured, hunchbacked, abnormal, grotesque, monstrous;
Scottish thrawn
Derivatives
misshapenly
- Non-PostScript printers tend to print misshapenly and so are pretty useless for proofing purposes.
- The common mussel Mytilus edulis can be so closely packed that their growth is affected and they grow misshapenly.
- This gives the movie an excuse to actually turn into a bad music video for a minute or two, as the two girls strike poses with their handguns, interspersed with footage of the misshapenly bosomed models.
misshapenness
- She still has a little misshapenness but now that she has hair you can hardly notice.
- We recommend that you avoid excessively cleaning your sweater, since that might lead to misshapenness and the breaking down of some materials.
- Similar to other fractures, the sooner the broken part is ‘set,’ the less likely permanent damage and misshapenness will result.
Rhymes
- Aristippus
- aristo
- aristocracy
- aristocrat
- aristocratic
- aristocratically
- Aristophanes
- Aristotelian
- Aristotelian logic
- aristotle
- Aristotle's lantern
- Arita
- arith.
- arith
- arithmetic
- arithmetical
- arithmetically
- arithmetical ratio
- arithmetician
- arithmetic logic unit
- arithmetic mean
- arithmetic progression
- arithmetic series
- arithmetic unit
- arithmetise