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say it: mal-FAWRMD
malformed is an adjective meaning "so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly". It is pronounced /ˌmælˈfɔɹmd/ — mal-FAWRMD. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for malformed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.