Synonyms of disfigurement

disfigurement

noun

as in defect

something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing

a plastic surgeon who occasionally donates his services to treat the disfigurements of needy children

Synonyms & Similar Words

• defect
• scar
• blotch
• deformity
• mark
• distortion
• imperfection
• blemish
• stain
• blight
• fault
• flaw
• irregularity
• excrescence
• mar
• injury
• abnormality
• pockmark
• spot
• bug
• malformation
• excrescency
• impairment
• weakness
• damage
• taint
• kink
• defacement
• blur
• glitch
• misshape
• blot
• failing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• enhancement
• decoration
• ornament
• adornment
• embellishment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of disfigurement

After the shooting, the internet lit up with macabre stories of death, disfigurement, and disability wrought by claim denials—DJs in clubs even spun dance music with Luigi’s face flashing behind them. — Elizabeth Nicholas, Vanity Fair, 9 Sep. 2026

To my eye, Rouy’s strategy of disfigurement also owes a debt to Francis Bacon, except a portrait by that artist offers up a person as a specimen to the viewer, like a dead butterfly pinned to a collector board. — David Lê, Curbed, 8 Sep. 2026

One of the strongest films of the year — in years, honestly — stars 2026 MVP Sandra Hüller as a 17th-century German soldier who’s survived a bullet to the face and disfigurement around the end of the Thirty Years War. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026

Glanville, who has been publicly chronicling her facial disfigurement and search for answers after developing a mysterious illness, shared on Instagram Wednesday. — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026

The car overturned at the Top Gear Dunsfold Park Aerodrome, dragging Flintoff face down underneath for about 50 metres and leaving him with severe facial disfigurement injuries, rib injuries and trauma. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 July 2026

That incident, which Johnson County court documents say occurred on May 13, resulted in great bodily harm or disfigurement of another person, and a level-five felony charge. — Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026

However, Glanville still maintains that her severe facial disfigurement was caused by a parasite. — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026

The eight-minute short — in which a Parisian man with a facial disfigurement named Marcel dances hopefully in his apartment every night awaiting a non-existent companion — is in fact the brainchild of one Robert Gaudette. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026