Deformity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: de=form=i=ty

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Deformity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the state of being deformed; ugliness, disfigurement.
2 a malformation, esp. of body or limb.
3 a moral defect; depravity.

Etymology

ME f. OF deformit{eacute} etc. f. L deformitas -tatis f. deformis (as DE-, forma shape)

THESAURUS

Deformity

aberration, abnormality, absurdity, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, amputee, anticness, atrophy, awfulness, bacterial disease, birth defect, birthmark, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blight, blister, bowlegs, bulla, camelback, cardiovascular disease, check, chronic disease, cicatrix, circulatory disease, cleft palate, clubfoot, comedo, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, crack, crater, craze, cripple, crookback, curiousness, damage, defacement, defect, defective, deficiency disease, deformation, degenerative disease, disability, disease, disfiguration, disfigurement, disorder, distemper, distortion, dreadfulness, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, fantasticality, fault, flatfoot, flaw, forbiddingness, freakishness, freckle, frightfulness, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, ghastliness, grisliness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, gruesomeness, handicap, handicapped person, harelip, hemangioma, hereditary disease, hickey, hideousness, horribleness, horridness, humpback, hunchback, iatrogenic disease, idiot, illness, imbecile, impairment, incapable, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, injury, irregularity, keloid, kink, knock-knee, kyphosis, lentigo, loathsomeness, lordosis, malady, malaise, malconformation, malformation, milium, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, mole, monstrosity, monstrousness, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, mutilation, needle scar, neurological disease, nevus, nutritional disease, occupational disease, oddity, offensiveness, organic disease, outlandishness, pandemic disease, paralytic, paraplegic, pathological condition, pathology, peculiarity, pimple, pit, plant disease, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, pustule, quadriplegic, quaintness, queerness, repugnantness, repulsiveness, respiratory disease, rift, rockiness, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, singularity, splayfoot, split, strangeness, strawberry mark, sty, swayback, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, talipes, teratism, teratology, terribleness, the crippled, the handicapped, the pip, torticollis, track, truncation, twist, unnaturalness, urogenital disease, valgus, verruca, vesicle, virus disease, wale, warp, wart, wasting disease, weal, weirdness, welt, wen, whitehead, worm disease, wryneck

ROGET THESAURUS

Deformity

Ugliness

N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, hard featured, hard visaged, ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored, ill-looking, unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff, rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety, gawky, lumping, lumpish, lumbering, hulky, hulking, unwieldy, squalid, haggard, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, grisly, ghastly, ghost like, death like, cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome, frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding, repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre, grody, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.

Blemish

N blemish, disfigurement, deformity, adactylism, flaw, defect, injury, spots on the sun, eyesore, stain, blot, spot, spottiness, speck, speckle, blur, tarnish, smudge, dirt, freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark, blobber lip, blubber lip, blain, maculation, scar, wem, pustule, whelk, excrescence, pimple, pitted, freckled, discolored, imperfect, blobber-lipped, bloodshot, injured.

Amorphism

N amorphism, informity, unlicked cub, rudis indigestaque moles, disorder, deformity, disfigurement, defacement, mutilation, deforming, chaos, randomness (disorder), fluid, shapeless, amorphous, formless, unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen, rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.

Distortion

N distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked, not true, not straight, on one side, crump, deformed, harelipped, misshapen, misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made, grotesque, monstrous, 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, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.