The want of proportion between the parts of a thing. It is also used in mathematics for incommensurability, when between two quantities there is no common measure.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
Distortion Roget’s Thesaurus §243
N. distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity
Adj. 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
Adv. all manner of ways
Phr. crooked as a virginia fence, 2, special form
No Bible verses found for "asymmetry".