disfiguration

1. 1.

   an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen

   “there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back”

   “suffering from facial disfiguration”

   Synonymsdisfigurementdeformity

   Broaderappearance
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsdefacementdisfigurementmutilation

   Broaderdamage

Other forms of disfiguration

plural

disfigurations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disfiguration

What does disfiguration mean?

disfiguration means "an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disfiguration?

disfiguration has 6 syllables: dis-fi-gu-ra-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for disfiguration?

Close synonyms include disfigurement, deformity, defacement, disfigurement, mutilation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disfiguration a common word?

disfiguration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.