misshapen

adj
/mɪsˈʃeɪ.pən/

Etymology

From Middle English (attested as mysshapend). Probably partly from the adjective and partly from mis- + shapen (verb), though shapen is attested later.

  1. inherited from misschapen

Definitions

  1. Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape

    Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.

  2. Morally or intellectually warped.

  3. 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

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.

01misshapen02warped03warping04warp05distortion06distorting07distorts08distort

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