Deformity
[dɪ'fɔːmɪtɪ] or [dɪ'fɔrməti]
Definition
(noun.) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed.
Typist: Ronald--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.
(a.) Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character.
Inputed by Lilly
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Distortion, malformation, misproportion, ugliness, inelegance, disfigurement, monstrosity, want of symmetry.[2]. Irregularity, deviation from propriety.
Checker: Sabina
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ugliness, disfigurement, hideousness, abnormity, monstrosity
ANT:Grace, beauty, decoration, ornament
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Examples
- Fain would I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth; but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The beauty or deformity is closely related to self, the object of both these passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- His father, Sir Felix Glyde, had suffered from his birth under a painful and incurable deformity, and had shunned all society from his earliest years. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And virtue is the health and beauty and well-being of the soul, and vice is the disease and weakness and deformity of the soul. Plato. The Republic.
- Then virtue is the health and beauty and well-being of the soul, and vice the disease and weakness and deformity of the same? Plato. The Republic.
- I am simply, in my original state--stripped of that blood-bleached robe with which Christianity covers human deformity--a cold, hard, ambitious man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Such is human nature, that beauty and deformity are often closely linked. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In like manner, it is the beauty or deformity of our person, houses, equipage, or furniture, by which we are rendered either vain or humble. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Alas, deformity and female beards are too common in Italy to attract attention. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Pleasure and pain, therefore, are not only necessary attendants of beauty and deformity, but constitute their very essence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Thus the beauty of our person, of itself, and by its very appearance, gives pleasure, as well as pride; and its deformity, pain as well as humility. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- No wonder, then our own beauty becomes an object of pride, and deformity of humility. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Typist: Nelda