Word Meanings - MISFEATURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ill feature. Keats.

FEATURELESS
Having no distinct or distinctive features.
FEATURE
fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, 1. The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature
FEATURELY
Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.
FEATURED
1. Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak. 2. Having features; formed into features. The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young.
DISFEATURE
To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
MISFEATURE
Ill feature. Keats.
CULTURE FEATURES
The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.
DEFEATURED
Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.
DEFEATURE
1. Overthrow; defeat. "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl. 2. Disfigurement; deformity. "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.
UNFEATURED
Wanting regular features; deformed. "Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff." Dryden.
HARD-FEATURED
Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.