Is misshapen a word

Frequently Asked Questions About mishap

Some common synonyms of mishap are adversity, mischance, and misfortune. While all these words mean «adverse fortune or an instance of this,» mishap applies to an often trivial instance of bad luck.

1. Its covers were loose, the pages within protruding at odd angles. …
2. Jule looked down at the arrow protruding from his shoulder, growing annoyed with her for the first time. …
3. The Other’s words slowed, and the creature looked down at the protruding weapon.

Frequently Asked Questions About deform

Some common synonyms of deform are contort, distort, and warp. While all these words mean «to mar or spoil by or as if by twisting,» deform may imply a change of shape through stress, injury, or accident of growth.

Unshape meaning

To deprive of shape; throw out of form or into disorder. To confound; derange.

• blunder.
• calamity.
• disaster.
• hazard.
• misfortune.
• mistake.
• pileup.
• setback.

Deformed/deformity

NCDJ Recommendation: Avoid using “deformed” as an adjective to describe a person. AP style: AP medical stories tend to refer to a specific deformity or deformities rather than describing an individual as “deformed.”

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• Misshapen — Mis*shap en, a. Having a bad or ugly form. The mountains are misshapen. Bentley. [1913 Webster] {Mis*shap en*ly}, adv. {Mis*shap en*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• misshapen — index blemished, repulsive Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• misshapen — (adj.) having a bad or ugly shape, crippled, deformed, monstrous, also degraded, perverted, late 14c., from MIS (Cf. mis) (1) + old alternative pp. of SHAPE (Cf. shape) (v.) …   Etymology dictionary

• misshapen — misshapen, misspelling, misspent see mis …   Modern English usage

• misshapen — [adj] deformed askew, awry, bent, blemished, bowed, buckled, contorted, crooked, curved, damaged, disfigured, disjointed, distorted, grotesque, ill made, irregular, malformed, mangled, marred, out of shape, twisted, ugly, unshapely, warped;… …   New thesaurus

• misshapen — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not having the normal or natural shape …   English terms dictionary

• misshapen — [mis shāp′ən] adj. [ME: see MISSHAPE] badly shaped; deformed misshapenly adv. misshapenness n …   English World dictionary

• misshapen — [[t]mɪ̱sʃe͟ɪpən[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe something as misshapen, you think that it does not have a normal or natural shape. …misshapen vegetables… Her hands were weary and misshapen by arthritis …   English dictionary

• misshapen — mis|shap|en [ˌmısˈʃeıpən, mıˈʃeı ] adj [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: mis + shapen, old past participle of shape] not the normal or natural shape ▪ an old woman struggling to walk on misshapen feet ▪ misshapen carrots …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• misshapen — adj. Misshapen is used with these nouns: ↑tooth …   Collocations dictionary

• misshapen — mis|shap|en [ mıs ʃeıpən ] adjective badly formed or twisted out of the usual or natural shape: misshapen fruit …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

Misshapen

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деформированный, уродливый

прилагательное

- уродливый; деформированный

Словосочетания

an old woman struggling to walk on misshapen feet — старуха, с трудом передвигающаяся на обезображенных ногах  
a little oldish misshapen stooping woman — немного староватая безобразная сутулая женщина  
misshapen egg — деформированное яйцо  

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

The faulty gene causes blood cells to become misshapen into a characteristic crescent or sickle shape that can slow or halt blood flow, damaging tissues and leaving patients in extreme pain.


—Angelica Peebles, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023




That single-letter insertion the Broad researchers had sniffed out jumbles the genetic script from that point on, resulting in a pile-up of mangled, misshapen, mucus-producing proteins that couldn’t be shredded by the cellular trash can, the lysosome.


—Isabella Cueto, STAT, 2 May 2022




After spending the first seven years of her life in a Ukrainian orphanage, Masters, who was born with no thumbs, webbed fingers and misshapen legs was adopted and brought to the United States by Gay Masters, a former speech pathologist at the University of Louisville.


—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 1 Sep. 2021




The devil’s face seemed misshapen, and its jaw was raw and red.


—Julie Rehmeyer, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2014




In radar images captured eight months later, the same vent had doubled in size and become misshapen.


—David Bressan, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023




Eight months later, the same vent had become misshapen and was filled to the rim with a lava lake.


—Julia Musto, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2023




If any tamales become slightly misshapen, they can be reshaped at this time.


—Minerva Orduño Rincón, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2022




There are numerous reasons a tattoo may fade or become misshapen over the course of a lifetime.


—Marci Robin, Allure, 22 Dec. 2020


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“Misshapen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misshapen. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.

• Bulgarian: деформиран (bg) (deformiran), уродлив (bg) (urodliv)
• Finnish: vääristynyt, epämuodostunut
• Galician: deforme (gl), contrafeito
• German: missgestaltet (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: δύσμορφος (dúsmorphos)

• Irish: anchumtha, dodhealbhach, míchruthach, míchumtha
• Italian: deforme (it)
• Latin: dēfōrmis, distortus
• Norwegian: vanskapt, misdannet
• Persian: بیریخت‎ (birixt)
• Plautdietsch: draljedreit
• Polish: zniekształcony, niekształtny
• Russian: деформи́рованный (ru) m (deformírovannyj)
• Scots: hurklin
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: деформисан

  Roman: deformisan (sh)

• Swedish: vanskapt (sv), missbildad (sv)