Deformity Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-fôrmĭ-tē
A disfiguring abnormality of shape or form
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. disfigurement
  2. malformation
  3. misshapenness
Disfigurement, distortion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. malformation
  2. disfigurement
  3. deformation
  4. unsightliness
  5. disfiguration
  6. misshapenness
Antonyms:
  1. beauty
  2. shapeliness
  3. grace

Words Related to Deformity

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Deformity Sentence Examples

  • Physical deformity is extremely rare.

  • This immediate pleasure that we take in goodness (and displeasure in its opposite) is due to a susceptibility which he calls the " reflex " or " moral " sense, and compares with our susceptibility to beauty and deformity in external things; it furnishes both an additional direct impulse to good conduct, and an additional gratification to be taken into account in the reckoning which proves the coincidence of virtue and happiness.

  • Your father tried to send you away for your deformity, but she wouldn't let him.

  • In art no attempt was made, as a rule, to indicate the lameness of Hephaestus; but one sculptor (Alcamenes) is said to have suggested the deformity without spoiling the statue.

  • A well-made horse wants dissecting in detail, and then if a good judge can discover no fault with any part, but finds each of good proportions, and the whole to harmonize without defect, deformity or deficiency, he has before him a well-shaped horse; and of two equally well-made and equitably proportioned horses the best bred one will be the best.

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