Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

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.].