misshapen
adjEtymology
From Middle English (attested as mysshapend). Probably partly from the adjective and partly from mis- + shapen (verb), though shapen is attested later.
- inherited from misschapen
Definitions
Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape
Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.
Morally or intellectually warped.
Synonym of misshape.
- Skin the fish before cooking since the skin shrinks as it cooks and misshapens the fillets.
- Large barrel sponges are misshapened by the strong currents
The neighborhood
- synonymdeform
- synonymdeformed
- synonymdisfigured
- synonymdistorted
- synonymmalformed
- synonymmisproportioned
- synonymmisshapen
- synonymshapeless
- synonymunfashionable
- antonymamorphous
- antonymshapely
- neighborugly
- neighborasymmetrical
- neighborasymmetric
- neighborlopsided
- neighborunsymmetrical
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at misshapen. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at misshapen. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at misshapen
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA