Malformed

Definition: Malformed

Malformed

Adjective

1. So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "malformed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Malformed

Crosswords: Malformed

Books

• Diagnostic Approaches to Malformed Fetus Aborts Stillborn and Deceased Newborn (reference)

• The Malformed Infant and Child: An Illustrated Guide (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Malformed Seed [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.

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Health

In rare cases of IP, hair loss with scarring and non-dermatological symptoms such as dental problems (delayed tooth growth or decay, missing or malformed teeth), diminished vision, seizures, muscle spasms, or slight paralysis may occur. (references)

The disorder is characterized by absence or underdevelopment of a part of the brain called the cerebellar vermis and a malformed brain stem. The most common features include ataxia (lack of muscle control), an abnormal breathing pattern called hypernea, sleep apnea, abnormal eye and tongue movements, and hypotonia. (references)

Other TSEs include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, fatal familial insomnia in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle (also known as mad cow disease), scrapie in sheep and goats, and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. “Prion” is the name given to an abnormal form of protein that appears to be able to cause more and more of its normal form to become malformed, eventually leading to deposits in cells of the central nervous system, and eventually killing these cells. (references)

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Albanian

i shformuar (misshapen). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشوه (defaced, deformed, disfigured, distorted, marred, misshapen, shapeless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уродлив (crooked, gnomish, miscreated, misshapen, monstrous, teratoid), деформиран (misshapen). (various references)

Chinese 

畸形 (malformation). (various references)

Czech

znetvořený (deformed, disfigured, misshapen, unshapely). (various references)

Farsi 

ناهنجار (Abnormal, Backhand, Dissonant, Gruff, Inelegant, Lumpy, Maladroit, Nefarious, Raucous, Rough, Surly, Timber, Uncouth, Unkempt), ناقص (Half, Halfbaked, Imperfect, Incomplete, Incorrect, Mutilate, Rudimentary, Sketchy, Skimpy, Unperfect, Violator), بدریخت , بدشکل (Awry). (various references)

Finnish

rujo (shapeless). (various references)

French

fève malformée (malformed bean). (various references)

German

missgebildet (misshapen). (various references)

Greek 

κακόμορφοσ, κακοφτιαγμένος, δύσμορφοσ (cretin), δύσμορφος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מעוות (deformed, distorted, drawn, perverse). (various references)

Hungarian

idomtalan (lopsided, lumpish, miscreated, misshapen, shapeless, unshapely, unshapen), deformált (unshapen). (various references)

Italian

malformato. (various references)

Korean 

기형 (Deformities, Deformity, malformation). (various references)

Manx

mee-chummit (deformed, ill-designed, misshapen). (various references)

Pig Latin

alformedmay.(various references)

Portuguese

mal conformado (misshapen), disforme (bloodcurdling, miscreated, misshapen, monstrous, shapeless, ugly, unshapely, unsightly), deformado (deformed, drawn, gnarled, gnarly, misshapen, strained, warped). (various references)

Russian 

уродливый (hideous, miscreated, misshapen, mis-shapen, monstrous, oaf, ugly, unsightly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nakazan (freak, miscreated, misshapen, unsightly). (various references)

Spanish

malformado. (various references)

Swedish

missbildad (deformed, misshapen). (various references)

Turkish

sakat (cripple, crippled, crock, defective, disabled, funny, game, gammy, handicapped, incapable of working, infirm, invalid, lame, lame duck, wonky), kusurlu (culpable, defective, faulty, imperfect, inaccurate, incommensurate, incomplete, peccant, tainted), özürlü (defective, disabled, gappy, handicapped). (various references)

Ukrainian

потворний (frightful, miscreated, monstrous, ugly). (various references)

Misspellings

"Malformed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Melform, Misformed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: earldom, femoral, flammed.

-3 letters: dammer, defoam, deform, dermal, fardel, farmed, fedora, femora, flamed, flamer, flared, florae, foaled, foamed, foamer, folder, formal, formed, framed, lammed, loader, loafed, loafer, loamed, malfed, marled, medlar, molder, morale, ordeal, radome, rammed, refold, reload, remold, roamed, rolfed.

-4 letters: adore, afore, alder, amole, armed, derma, dolma, domal, dream, fader, famed.