Usually means: Deformed, distorted in shape, appearance.
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  1. misshapen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. misshapen: Merriam-Webster
  3. misshapen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. misshapen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. misshapen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Misshapen, misshapen: Wordnik
  7. misshapen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. misshapen: Wiktionary
  9. misshapen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. misshapen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. misshapen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Misshapen, misshapen: Dictionary.com
  13. misshapen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. misshapen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Misshapen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. misshapen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. misshapen: Rhymezone
  18. misshapen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. misshapen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. misshapen: FreeDictionary.org
  21. misshapen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. misshapen: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See misshape as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.
▸ adjective:  Morally or intellectually warped.
▸ verb:  Synonym of misshape.

Similar:
malformed, deformed, unshapely, distorted, ill-shapen, mishapt, misnatured, misgrown, misfeatured, miscreated, more...

Opposite:
symmetrical, regular, even, proportional

Types:
deformed, disfigured, malformed, more...

Phrases:
opposite of misshapen, misshapen pages, more...

Adjectives:
jagged, little, huge, much, strange, old, dry, poor, own, black

Colors:
    gray,     murky green,     dull brown,     muddy yellow,     tarnished silver, more...


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Similar:
malformed, deformed, unshapely, distorted, ill-shapen, mishapt, misnatured, misgrown, misfeatured, miscreated, more...

Opposite:
symmetrical, regular, even, proportional

Types:
deformed, disfigured, malformed, more...

Phrases:
opposite of misshapen, misshapen pages, more...

Adjectives:
jagged, little, huge, much, strange, old, dry, poor, own, black

Colors:
    gray,     murky green,     dull brown,     muddy yellow,     tarnished silver, more...



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