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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 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.