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Definition: Misshapen |
MisshapenAdjective1. 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 "misshapen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: MisshapenSynonyms: deformed (adj), distorted (adj), ill-shapen (adj), malformed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Distortion | Adjective: distorted; Verb: 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; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic. |
Ugliness | Misshapen, misproportioned; monstrous; gaunt; (thin); dumpy; (short); curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked; (distorted); hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Misshapen |
| English words defined with "misshapen": crooked ♦ deform, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement ♦ False conception, family Secotiaceae, Forshape ♦ hunched ♦ malformation, misshapenness ♦ round-backed, round-shouldered ♦ Secotiaceae, stooped, stooping. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "misshapen": BABE ♦ CEMENTER, MACHINE ♦ DIVIDING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ feeping creaturism ♦ inspector, jewels ♦ Jaws, JEWEL INSPECTOR ♦ Legs, LEVEL-GLASS-FORMING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Man ♦ ORIENTAL-RUG REPAIRER, ORIENTAL-RUG STRETCHER ♦ roll-dough divider, roll-machine operator, rug stretcher. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Timber thinned by the removal of diseased and misshapen trees. Pine Ridge, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The fury of the flood was imprinted upon that misshapen obstruction |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some children with DiGeorge Anomaly have a distinctive look, with an underdeveloped chin, eyes that slant downward, and misshapen ear lobes. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BABE or :BABY:, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf. Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be 'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. Ro Amil |
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| "Misshapen" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Misshapen" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "misshapen": misshapen figure. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
misshapen | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "misshapen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shtrembër (awry, bandy, crooked, lopsided, skew), i shformuar (malformed), i deformuar (warped). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشوه (defaced, deformed, disfigured, distorted, malformed, marred, shapeless), غريب الشكل, سيء الشكل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уродлив (crooked, gnomish, malformed, miscreated, monstrous, teratoid), обезобразен (disfigured), безформен (amorphous, formless, lumpy, nebulous, shapeless, unboiled), деформиран (malformed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 残废. (various references) | |
Czech | znetvořený (deformed, disfigured, malformed, unshapely). (various references) | |
Danish | misformet fod (misshapen foot). (various references) | |
Dutch | misvormde voet (misshapen foot). (various references) | |
Finnish | muodoton (deformed, shapeless), epämuotoinen (deformed). (various references) | |
French | difforme (mis-shapen), déformé, contrefait (mis-shapen). (various references) | |
German | unförmig (bulky, clumsy, cumbersome, diffuse, inelegant, shapeless, shapelessly, unshapely, unwieldy), verunstaltet (blemishes, defaces). (various references) | |
Greek | παραμορφωμένοσ (deformed). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משו " בצורתו. (various references) | |
Hungarian | torz (malformed), alaktalan (amorphous, bulky, cramp, formless, shapeless, structureless, unformed, unshapely, unshapen). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cengkong (deformed). (various references) | |
Italian | sbilenco (crooked, rickety), deforme (crooked, deformed, unshapely). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不 好 (awkward, clumsy, shapeless). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぶかっ"う (awkward, clumsiness, clumsy, shapeless, unshapeliness), ふかっ"う (awkward, clumsy, shapeless). (various references) | |
Manx | mee-chummit (deformed, ill-designed, malformed), mee-chiaddit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isshapenmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mal conformado (malformed), disforme (bloodcurdling, malformed, miscreated, monstrous, shapeless, ugly, unshapely, unsightly), deformado (deformed, drawn, gnarled, gnarly, malformed, strained, warped). (various references) | |
Romanian | slut (ill-favored, ill-favoured, monstrous, mooncalf, ugly), diform (deformed, disproportionate, enormous, hulking, miscreated, shapeless, ungainly). (various references) | |
Russian | уродливый (hideous, malformed, miscreated, mis-shapen, monstrous, oaf, ugly, unsightly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ružan (homely, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ugly, uncomely, unhandsome, unshapely, unsightly), nakazan (freak, malformed, miscreated, unsightly). (various references) | |
Spanish | deforme (shapeless, unshapely), contrahecho (counterfeit, faked). (various references) | |
Swedish | missbildad (deformed, malformed), vanskapt (deformed), vanskapad. (various references) | |
Turkish | biçimsiz (amorphous, distorted, formless, ill shaped, off form, out of trim, rambling, sesquipedalian, shapeless, thrawn, ugly, unformed, ungainly, unshapely), şekilsiz (amorphous, formless, off form, shapeless, unformed, unshapely), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спотворений (anamorphous, awry, cam, deformed, distorted, putrid, strained, truncated), деформований (distorted). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | prava, pravae, pravam, pravis, pravo, pravorum, pravum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "misshapen": misshapenly. (additional references) | |
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"Misshapen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maishofen, mischosen, mishapen, misshappen, Nishapur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "misshapen" (pronounced mi'sshā"pun or mi'sha"pun) |
| 3 | -p u n | aspen, cheapen, copen, crispen, dampen, deepen, happen, hempen, lupin, open, reopen, ripen, sharpen, somatotropin, tarpon, weapon, yaupon. |
| 5 | -h a" p u n | happen. |
| 3 | -p u n | aspen, cheapen, copen, crispen, dampen, deepen, hempen, lupin, open, reopen, ripen, sharpen, somatotropin, tarpon, weapon, yaupon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: emphasis, misshape. | |
-2 letters: aphesis, haemins, hessian, hipness, impasse, inphase, inseams, mashies, messiah, mishaps, mispens, pansies, samisen, sapiens, shipman, shipmen. | |
-3 letters: amines, animes, anises, ashmen, aspens, aspish, haemin, hanses, hemins, inmesh, inseam, manses, mashes, mashie, mensas, mesian, messan, mishap, mispen, pashes, passim, phases, phasis, pishes, sanies, sansei, semina, sepias, shames, shapen, shapes, shines, shnaps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: pantheisms, seamanship. | |
+2 letters: emphasising, misshapenly, penmanships, seamanships. | |
+3 letters: amphisbaenas, foremanships, gamesmanship, helmsmanship, horsemanship, hypermnesias, lifemanships, managerships, misanthropes, salesmanship. | |
+4 letters: arsphenamines, gamesmanships, helmsmanships, horsemanships, misanthropies, misapprehends, phrasemakings, salesmanships, spokesmanship, statesmanship, transshipment, underemphasis, watermanships. | |
+5 letters: amphibiousness, analphabetisms, commanderships, hyperurbanisms, metaphysicians, misemphasizing, phenomenalisms, phenomenalists, spokesmanships, sportfisherman, statesmanships, transshipments. | |
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