disfigured
Scarred beyond recognition
Disfigured describes something whose appearance has been damaged or marred, especially a face or body that bears visible scars, burns, or deformities: The acid attack left her permanently disfigured.
The word implies that the original form was altered in a way that makes it less attractive or harder to recognize.
It applies beyond bodies—a disfigured landscape has been scarred by mining or development.
Overgrown scar tissue
- cicatrixHealed wound tissue
- scarPermanent mark from healing
- pockmarkDepressed scar from infection
- blemishVisible flaw or mark
burn · gash · laceration · wound · incision · lesion · trauma · suture
Unpleasant to look at
- hideousExtremely unpleasant to see
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
- repulsiveCausing strong disgust
- uglyDispleasing to look at
monstrous · gruesome · horrifying · shocking · disturbing · unrecognizable · altered · changed
Abnormally developed structure
- congenitalExisting from birth
- abnormalityDeviation from expected state
- anomalyDeparture from the expected
- misshapenAbnormally or poorly formed
asymmetry · birth defect · cleft · limb · skeletal · craniofacial · twisted · contorted
keloid
Overgrown scar tissue
blemish · burn · gash · laceration · wound · incision · lesion · trauma · suture · stitch
unsightly
Unpleasant to look at
ugly · monstrous · gruesome · horrifying · shocking · disturbing · unrecognizable · altered · changed · damaged
malformation
Abnormally developed structure
- congenitalExisting from birth
- abnormalityDeviation from expected state
- anomalyDeparture from the expected
misshapen · asymmetry · birth defect · cleft · limb · skeletal · craniofacial · twisted · contorted · gnarled
- uglyugly, hideous, unsightly, grotesque, repulsive
- distortedwarped, twisted, bent, contorted, crooked
- deformitiesdeformed, misshapen, distorted, twisted, crooked
- unrecognizabledisguised, unrecognizable, blurred, camouflaged, masked
- Disabilitiesblind, paralysis, vision loss, developmental disability, hearing impairment
- woundswound, wounded, bullet wound, wounds, ulcer
disfigure, disfigurement, disfiguring, disfigures, disfigurements, disfiguration, disfigurations