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disfigured

disfigured

20 4.4
Having a damaged appearance that makes a face or thing look ruined
  • adjective
  • /dɪsˈfɪɡjʊrd/
: desfigurado
  • It is a self recognizable jet disfigured in these images.

The doctor save him, but his face is kind of grotesquely disfigured.

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Examples

  • Maybe he's ugly, or disfigured, and ashamed of how he looks.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • As someone who has constantly had their worth defined by the looks, I was born disfigured, but but Adele wasn't.

  • Some died, others were painfully disfigured for life.

  • To be facially disfigured is really hard.

  • He was poisoned and his face was was disfigured and but he won.

  • He begins to spot others converging on him: the corpses of those he killed, bloody and disfigured.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I am reading a book called The Face Maker, A Visionary Surgeons Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War One by Lindsay Fitzharris.

  • Nothing left but a poor, disfigured, raging psychopath who possesses the body of a boy who long ago faded when he first decided to end his life and overdose.

    Blog text (30)

  • He was disfigured in the accident and required extensive surgery to improve his appearance.

  • After the fire, she was left with a disfigured face that made her self-conscious.

Synonyms

scarred
vsdisfigured
41 3.9

Marked by old visible cuts or damage

describes a ruined look beyond just healed wound marks
deformed
vsdisfigured
41 4.6

Having a shape that is not normal and often looking ugly

is used for a spoiled appearance rather than only odd shape
distorted
vsdisfigured
29 4.4

Twisted out of shape so it looks ugly or unnatural

is about a spoiled look rather than merely twisted form
mangled
vsdisfigured
  • NSFW
29 5.3

Having parts that are badly torn or crushed with jagged edges

applies to a ruined look rather than specifically torn jagged damage
mutilated
vsdisfigured
  • NSFW
26 7.4

Having a part badly damaged or removed, like an arm

refers to a spoiled appearance rather than loss of body parts
misshapen
vsdisfigured
13 4.7

Not the normal shape and often looking ugly

is about an overall ruined appearance not just wrong shape
marred
vsdisfigured
7 5.5

Having a mark or fault that makes it look worse

focuses on an overall ruined appearance not only a surface blemish

Antonyms

unmarred
1 6.8

Not damaged or harmed

How Disfigured

mutilated
  • NSFW
26 7.4
deformed
41 4.6
disfigured
20 4.4
scarred
41 3.9
blemished
2 4.1

Surface Forms

disfigured positive

Morphology

disfigured = disfigure (semi-transparent) = dis + figure + ed

The adjective is a regular participial form meaning 'having been disfigured' from the verb 'disfigure'.

Etymology

The word disfigured comes from the parts dis- meaning 'not' and figure meaning 'shape' or 'form'. So if a person or thing is disfigured, their usual shape or face is 'ruined' or 'spoiled', which is why the word means having a damaged appearance.