Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

General Form

Form

Nouns
  • form, figure, shape
  • conformation, configuration
  • make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib
  • stamp, type, cast, mold
  • fashion
  • contour etc. (outline) Outline
  • structure etc. [Structure.] Texture
  • plasmature. feature, lineament, turn
  • phase etc. (aspect) Appearance
  • posture, attitude, pose. [Science of form] morphism. [Similarity of form] isomorphism. forming etc. v.
  • formation, figuration, efformation
  • sculpture
  • plasmation.
Verbs
  • form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast
  • rough hew, rough cast
  • sketch
  • block out, hammer out
  • trim
  • lick into shape, put into shape
  • model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture
  • cast, stamp
  • build etc. (construct) Production.
Adjectives
  • formed etc. v.. [Receiving form] plastic, fictile
  • formative
  • fluid. [Giving form] plasmic. [Similar in form] isomorphous. [taking several forms] pleomorphic
  • protean
  • changeable, c. Changeableness.

Amorphism (Absence of form)

Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
  • shapeless, amorphous, formless
  • unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen
  • rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.

Symmetry (Regularity of form)

Nouns
  • symmetry, shapeliness, finish
  • beauty etc. Beauty
  • proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism
  • bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry
  • centrality etc. Centrality. arborescence, branching, ramification
  • arbor vitae.
Adjectives
  • symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished
  • beautiful etc. Beauty
  • classic, chaste, severe. regular, uniform, balanced
  • equal etc. [Sameness of quantity or degree.] Equality
  • parallel, coextensive. arborescent, arboriform
  • dendriform, dendroid
  • branching
  • ramous, ramose
  • filiciform, filicoid
  • subarborescent
  • papilionaceous. fuji-shaped

Distortion (Irregularity of form)

Nouns
  • distortion, detortion, contortion
  • twist, crookedness etc. (obliquity) Obliquity
  • grimace
  • deformity
  • malformation, malconformation
  • harelip
  • monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis
  • ugliness etc. Ugliness
  • talipes
  • teratology. asymmetry
  • irregularity.
Verbs
  • distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.
Adjectives
  • distorted etc. v.
  • out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked
  • not true, not straight
  • on one side, crump, deformed
  • harelipped
  • misshapen, misbegotten
  • misproportioned, ill proportioned
  • ill-made
  • grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn
  • camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed
  • bandy
  • bandy legged, bow legged
  • bow kneed, knock kneed
  • splay footed, club footed
  • round shouldered
  • snub nosed
  • curtailed of one's fair proportions
  • stumpy etc. (short) Shortness
  • gaunt etc. (thin) Narrowness. Thinness
  • bloated etc. Expansion
  • scalene
  • simous
  • taliped, talipedic.
Adverbs
  • all manner of ways.
Phrases
  • crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].