noun
Meaning 1
The state of being deformed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- congenital deformity
- severe deformity
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
deformity
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɪˈfɔːmɪti/
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US: /dɪˈfɔɹməti/
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noun
Meaning 2
An ugly or misshapen feature or characteristic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- physical deformity
- The accident left him with a slight facial deformity.
- She worked with children born with limb deformities.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back
- suffering from facial disfiguration
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disfigurement, disfiguration
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: appearance, visual aspect
noun
Meaning 4
an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: malformation, misshapenness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: affliction
Narrower terms: Arnold-Chiari deformity, clawfoot, pes cavus, cleft foot, clubfoot, talipes, pigeon breast, chicken breast, plagiocephaly, scaphocephaly, valgus, varus
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English deformite, from Middle French deformite, from Latin dēfōrmitās (“deformity, ugliness”), from dēfōrmis (“deformed, ugly”) + -itās, from dē + fōrma (“shape, form”).
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَشَوُّه شَكْلِيّ (tašawwuh šakliyy) — The state of being deformed
- Bulgarian: уродливост (urodlivost) — The state of being deformed
- Catalan: deformitat — The state of being deformed
- Danish: deformitet — The state of being deformed
- Danish: vanskabthed — The state of being deformed
- Dutch: misvorming — The state of being deformed
- Dutch: deformiteit — The state of being deformed
- Finnish: epämuodostuma — The state of being deformed
- Hungarian: deformitás — The state of being deformed
- Indonesian: canggaan — The state of being deformed
- Italian: deformità — The state of being deformed
- Japanese: 奇形 (kikei) — The state of being deformed
- Korean: 기형 (gihyeong) — The state of being deformed
- Latin: dēfōrmitās — The state of being deformed
- Latin: disfigūrātiō — The state of being deformed
- Macedonian: изобличеност (izobličenost) — The state of being deformed
- Macedonian: деформитет (deformitet) — The state of being deformed
- Marathi: व्यंग (vyaṅga) — The state of being deformed
- Middle English: deformite — The state of being deformed
- Norwegian Bokmål: misdannelse — The state of being deformed
- Polish: deformacja — The state of being deformed
- Portuguese: deformidade — The state of being deformed
- Russian: деформация (deformacija) — The state of being deformed
- Serbo-Croatian: deformiranost — The state of being deformed
- Serbo-Croatian: izobličenost — The state of being deformed
- Sicilian: deformità — The state of being deformed
- Slovene: deformacija — The state of being deformed
- Spanish: deformidad — The state of being deformed
- Spanish: disformidad — The state of being deformed
- Tatar: деформация (deformatsiyä) — The state of being deformed
- Telugu: అవలక్షణము (avalakṣaṇamu) — The state of being deformed
- Venetan: deformità — The state of being deformed
- Welsh: anffurfiad — The state of being deformed
- Bulgarian: урод (urod) — Something which is deformed
- Catalan: deformitat — Something which is deformed
- Danish: misdannelse — Something which is deformed
- Danish: deformitet — Something which is deformed
- Indonesian: canggaan — Something which is deformed
- Italian: deformità — Something which is deformed
- Middle English: deformite — Something which is deformed
- Portuguese: deformidade — Something which is deformed
- Serbo-Croatian: deformitet — Something which is deformed
- Spanish: deformidad — Something which is deformed
- Spanish: disformidad — Something which is deformed
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