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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective distorted has 2 senses
- distorted(s = adj.all) deformed, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen - so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers"
- distorted(s = adj.all) misrepresented, perverted, twisted - having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"
THESAURUS
distorted
aberrant, abroad, adrift, affected, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, anamorphous, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, astray, asymmetric, at fault, awry, bastard, bent, beside the mark, blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, catachrestic, checked, cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, contorted, corrupt, counterfeit, counterfeited, cracked, crazed, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, deceptive, defaced, defective, deflected, deflective, deformed, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disfigured, dispersed, dressed up, dummy, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, errant, erring, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified, faultful, faulty, feigned, fictitious, fictive, flawed, flectional, flexed, garbled, heretical, heterodox, illegitimate, illogical, illusory, imitation, inflective, irregular, junky, keloidal, kinked, labyrinthine, lopsided, make-believe, man-made, marred, misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misread, mistaken, misunderstood, mock, nonsymmetric, not right, not true, off, off the track, one-sided, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phony, pimpled, pimply, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, scattered, self-contradictory, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, skew, skewed, so-called, soi-disant, split, sprung, spurious, straying, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortuous, twisted, unauthentic, unfactual, ungenuine, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unsymmetric, untrue, warped, wide, wrongROGET THESAURUS
distorted
Distortion
N distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, 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, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.
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