English-Thai Dictionary

deformity

N ความพิกลพิการ  การ เสียรูป  ความ ไม่ เป็นรูปเป็นร่าง  disfigurer kwam-pi-kon-pi-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEFORMITY

n. 1. Any unnatural state of the shape or form; want of that uniformity or symmetry which constitutes beauty; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; disproportion of limbs; defect; crookedness, etc. Hence, ugliness; as bodily deformity.
2. Any thing that destroys beauty, grace or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order, or the established laws of propriety. Thus we speak of deformity in an edifice, or deformity of character.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEFORMITY

De *form "i *ty, n.; pl. Deformities. Etym: [L. deformitas, fr. deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. & a., and cf. Disformity. ]

 

1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body. Shak.

 

2. Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from other or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character. Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. Milton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

deformity

de form i ty |diˈfôrmitē dəˈfɔrmədi | ▶noun ( pl. deformities ) a deformed part, esp. of the body; a malformation: children born with deformities. • the state of being deformed or misshapen: respiratory problems caused by spinal deformity. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French desformite, from Latin deformitas, from deformis ‘misshapen. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

deformity

de |form |ity |dɪˈfɔːmɪti | ▶noun ( pl. deformities ) a deformed part, especially of the body; a malformation: deformities of the hands or feet. • [ mass noun ] the state of being deformed or misshapen: respiratory problems caused by spinal deformity. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French desformite, from Latin deformitas, from deformis ‘misshapen ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

deformity

deformity noun a brace used to correct spinal deformities: malformation, misshapenness, distortion, crookedness; imperfection, abnormality, irregularity; disfigurement; defect, flaw, blemish.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

deformity

deformity noun the frame can be used to correct bone deformities: malformation, misshapenness, disproportion, distortion, crookedness; imperfection, abnormality, irregularity; ugliness, unsightliness, defacement, disfigurement; defect, flaw, blemish.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

deformity

de form i ty /dɪfɔ́ː r məti /名詞 複 -ties 1 U 奇形, ぶかっこうさ .2 U (先天的 後天的 )奇形, 変形 ; C 奇形の物 .3 U C (道徳面の )ゆがみ .