DEFORMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deformed mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFORMED (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:

deformity (an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen)

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

 Context examples 

I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The largeness of its features made it appear the most deformed animal that can be conceived.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Type 1 (NF1) causes skin changes and deformed bones. It usually starts in childhood. Sometimes the symptoms are present at birth.

(Neurofibromatosis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

A condition in children in which bones become soft and deformed because they don’t have enough calcium and phosphorus.

(Infantile rickets, NCI Dictionary)

The deformed cells can block blood flow, causing severe pain, organ damage, and stroke.

(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)

He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Many of them carried sticks, and at the distance they looked like a line of very hairy and deformed human beings.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then I strangled a new-born agony—a deformed thing which I could not persuade myself to own and rear—and ran on.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Testing the device's ability to recover its size and shape after being deformed during the test.

(Device Elasticity Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

There are not such a very great number of civilians, and a deformed man was sure to have attracted attention.

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