Word Meanings - DEFORMED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFORMED)

• Crooked
• Bent
• incurved
• angular
• deformed
• bowed
• disfigured
• turned
• curved
• awry
• anfractuous
• tortuous
• underhanded
• Monstrous
• Prodigious
• portentous
• marvellous
• abnormal
• hideous
• preposterous
• intolerable
• Ugly
• Loathsome
• hateful
• frightful
• uncouth
• ill-favored
• unsightly
• ill-looking
• plain
• homely
• monstrous
• ungainly
• Wry
• Atwist
• askew
• contorted
• distorted
• deranged

Related words: (words related to DEFORMED)

• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CONTORTION
  A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• BOWYER
  1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
• TURN-SICK
  Giddy. Bacon.
• BOWLER
  One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• NOCTURNAL
  1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
• EMBOWL
  To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
• SATURNISM
  Plumbum. Quain.
• DIUTURNAL
  Of long continuance; lasting. Milton.