misshapen


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mis·shape

 (mĭs-shāp′)
tr.v. mis·shaped, mis·shaped or mis·shap·en (-shā′pən), mis·shap·ing, mis·shapes
To shape badly; deform.

mis·shap′en·ly adv.
mis·shap′er n.
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misshapen

(ˌmɪsˈʃeɪpən)
adj
badly shaped; deformed
ˌmisˈshapenly adv
ˌmisˈshapenness n
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mis•shap•en

(mɪsˈʃeɪ pən, mɪʃ-)

adj.
badly shaped; deformed.
[1350–1400; Middle English, = mis- mis-1 + shapen, past participle of shapen to shape; see -en3]
mis•shap′en•ly, adv.
mis•shap′en•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.misshapen - so badly formed or out of shape as to be uglymisshapen - so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers"
unshapely - not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape; "a stout unshapely woman"
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misshapen

adjective deformed, twisted, crippled, distorted, ugly, crooked, warped, grotesque, wry, unsightly, contorted, ungainly, malformed, ill-made, unshapely, ill-proportioned Her hands were misshapen because of arthritis.
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Translations
مُشَوَّه الخِلْقَه
znetvoření
misdannet
torz
vanskapaîur, afmyndaîur
deformētskroplīgs
zdeformovaný
biçimsizçirkin biçimli

misshapen

[ˌmɪsˈʃeɪpən] ADJdeforme
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misshapen

[ˌmɪsˈʃeɪpən] adjdifforme
to be misshapen by sth → être déformé par qch
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misshapen

adjmissgebildet; plant, tree alsoverwachsen; vegetablesunförmig, missraten
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misshapen

[ˌmɪsˈʃeɪpn] adjdeforme
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misshapen

(misˈʃeipən) adjective
badly formed. a misshapen tree.
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misshaped

, misshapen
a. deforme, desfigurado-a.
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References in classic literature ?
Misshapen from my birth-hour, how could I delude myself with the idea that intellectual gifts might veil physical deformity in a young girl's fantasy?
Under the oak, too, were flowers and grass, but it stood among them scowling, rigid, misshapen, and grim as ever.
The flour pan in which their daily bread was mixed stood on the rude table side by side with the "prospecting pans," half full of gold washed up from their morning's work; the front windows of the newer tenements looked upon the one single thoroughfare, but the back door opened upon the uncleared wilderness, still haunted by the misshapen bulk of bear or the nightly gliding of catamount.
He was, I could see, a misshapen man, short, broad, and clumsy, with a crooked back, a hairy neck, and a head sunk between his shoulders.
She was a hard taskmaster, too, for she looked down with loathing and contempt upon the misshapen creatures amongst which cruel Fate had thrown her and to some extent vented upon them her dissatisfaction and her thwarted love.
And though ye be high and of a higher type, much in you is crooked and misshapen. There is no smith in the world that could hammer you right and straight for me.
He mocked the misshapen body and the failing limbs.
A half dozen misshapen monsters roved restlessly about the hard packed earth of the pen.
Fraulein Anna, foredoomed to a spinster's life, with her high cheek-bones and large misshapen nose, laid great stress upon character.
It lay there bald and ugly in the streaming sunshine, a block of misshapen wood ill-painted in flaring daubs, the thing which they had worshipped in gloom and secret, they and a generation before them - all the mystery of its shrouded existence, the terrible fetish words of the dead priest, the reverence which an all-powerful and inherited superstition had kept alive within them, came into their minds as they stood there trembling, and then fled away to be out of the reach of the empty, staring eyes - out of reach of the vengeance which must surely fall from the skies upon these white savages.
It was like a new world, unknown, unheard of, misshapen, creeping, swarming, fantastic.
Yes, there it squatted, an ugly, misshapen, figure, a cross between a toad and a gila monster, half man, half beast, with big red eyes--rubies probably--that gleamed in the repulsive golden face.