MISSHAPEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misshapen mean? 

• MISSHAPEN (adjective)
  The adjective MISSHAPEN has 1 sense:

1. so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly

  Familiarity information: MISSHAPEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSHAPEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly

Synonyms:

deformed; distorted; ill-shapen; malformed; misshapen

Context example:

misshapen old fingers

Similar:

unshapely (not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape)

Derivation:

misshapenness (an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed)

 Context examples 

Diversity-poor orchards also had more misshapen fruit.

(Diverse Bee Communities Best for Apple Orchards, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The spleen also removes unhealthy, old, and misshapen red blood cells from circulation.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)

Symptoms of a fracture are: • Out-of-place or misshapen limb or joint • Swelling, bruising or bleeding • Intense pain • Numbness and tingling • Limited mobility or inability to move a limb

(Fractures, NIH)

The study found that this cardiac lipid overload leads to numerous small, misshapen mitochondria that don't produce energy as efficiently as normal mitochondria.

(Excess Fat Disrupts Heart Cell's Energy System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He straightened himself then, and I saw that what he held in his hand was a sort of gun, with a curiously misshapen butt.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The black hole’s extreme gravity skews light emitted by different regions of the disk, producing the misshapen appearance.

(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)

The first was a misshapen, squalid man with cruel, cunning eyes and a shock of tangled red hair, bearing in his hands a small unpainted cross, which he held high so that all men might see it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under certain conditions, such as hereditary spherocytosis, misshapen red blood cells can get trapped in the spleen, leading to anemia.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)