Qualities

Synonyms for malformed

The synonym for malformed recorded in this bank is distorted, in the sense "so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for malformed

distortedadjective, in the sense "so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly"

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The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly

A limp caused by a malformed foot.

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The true synonym

distorted

Same sentence, swapped: A limp caused by a distorted foot.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where malformed stands in the sentence above.

truncated
misbegotten
bowlegged

Where malformed turns up in the game

malformed is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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