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Misshapen vs Gnarled - What's the difference?

misshapen | gnarled |

As adjectives the difference between misshapen and gnarled

is that misshapen is having a bad or ugly form; deformed; malformed while gnarled is knotty and misshapen.

As a verb gnarled is

past tense of gnarl.

misshapen

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a bad or ugly form; deformed; malformed.

    • gnarled

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested Shakespeare 1603: : Thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the vn-wedgable [unwedgable] and gnarled Oke [oak]. : Measure for Measure, Act II, scene ii, line 116 Variant of knurled,OEDBarnhart from knurl. Surface analysis is is a later back-formation. Popular use by 19th century.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Knotty and misshapen.
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  • *:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
  • Made rough by age or hard work.
    • Synonyms
    * gnarly
    Derived terms
    * gnarl

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gnarl)

    • Etymology 2

    See (gnarl)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gnarl)

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