ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Adj. symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished; beautiful &c 845; classic, chaste, severe.
regular, uniform, balanced; equal &c 27; parallel, coextensive.
arborescent † , arboriform † ; dendriform † , dendroid † ; branching; ramous † , ramose;
filiciform † , filicoid † ; subarborescent † ; papilionaceous † .
fuji-shaped, fujigata [Jap.].
243. [Irregularity of form.] Distortion -- N. distortion, detortion † , contortion; twist,
crookedness &c (obliquity) 217; grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation † ;
harelip; monstrosity, misproportion † , want of symmetry, anamorphosis † ; ugliness &c 846;
talipes † ; teratology.
asymmetry; irregularity.
V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.
Adj. distorted &c v.; out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric † , awry, wry,
askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump † , deformed; harelipped;
misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned † , ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque,
monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch
backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay
footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions;
stumpy &c (short) 201; gaunt &c (thin) 203; bloated &c 194; scalene; simous † ; taliped † ,
talipedic † .
Adv. all manner of ways.
Phr. crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].
2. SPECIAL FORM
244. Angularity -- N. angularity, angularness † ; aduncity † ; angle, cusp, bend; fold &c
258; notch &c 257; fork, bifurcation.
elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag,
kimbo † , akimbo.
corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel [Arch.], coign † .
right angle &c (perpendicular) 216.1, 212; obliquity &c 217; angle of 45 degrees,
miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle.
angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity;
trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry † ; clinometer, graphometer † , goniometer; theodolite;
sextant, quadrant; dichotomy.
triangle, trigon † , wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond; rhomb, rhombus;
quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon, pentagon, hexagon,
heptagon, octagon, oxygon † , decagon.
pyramid, cone.
Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron,
dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof,
gambrel roof, mansard roof.
V. bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle.
Adj. angular, bent, crooked, aduncous † , uncinated † , aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform † ,
falcated † ; furcated † , forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular † ; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed,
crinkled, akimbo, kimbo † , geniculated † ; oblique &c 217.