'Disfigurement' definitions:
Definition of 'disfigurement'
(from WordNet)
noun
An appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back"; "suffering from facial disfiguration" [syn: disfigurement, disfiguration, deformity]
noun
The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape" [syn: defacement, disfigurement, disfiguration]
Definition of 'Disfigurement'
From: GCIDE
- Disfigurement \Dis*fig"ure*ment\, n.
- 1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. [1913 Webster]
- Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. --Hume. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disfigurement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- bowlegs,
- bulla,
- cacophony,
- camelback,
- check,
- cicatrix,
- cleft palate,
- clubfoot,
- clumsiness,
- comedo,
- crack,
- crater,
- craze,
- crookback,
- defacement,
- defect,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- disfiguration,
- distortion,
- dysphemism,
- fault,
- flatfoot,
- flaw,
- freakishness,
- freckle,
- gracelessness,
- harelip,
- hemangioma,
- hickey,
- homeliness,
- humpback,
- hunchback,
- ill-favoredness,
- inelegance,
- keloid,
- kink,
- knock-knee,
- kyphosis,
- lentigo,
- lordosis,
- malconformation,
- malformation,
- milium,
- misproportion,
- misshape,
- mole,
- monstrosity,
- mutilation,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- pimple,
- pit,
- plainness,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- pustule,
- rift,
- scab,
- scar,
- scratch,
- sebaceous cyst,
- shapelessness,
- splayfoot,
- split,
- strawberry mark,
- sty,
- swayback,
- talipes,
- teratology,
- torticollis,
- track,
- truncation,
- twist,
- uglification,
- uglifying,
- ugliness,
- unaestheticness,
- unattractiveness,
- unbeautifulness,
- uncomeliness,
- ungainliness,
- ungracefulness,
- unhandsomeness,
- unloveliness,
- unpleasingness,
- unprettiness,
- unshapeliness,
- unsightliness,
- valgus,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- wale,
- warp,
- wart,
- weal,
- welt,
- wen,
- whitehead,
- wryneck