Word Meanings - MISGROWTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.

Related words: (words related to MISGROWTH)

• ABNORMAL
  Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• UNNATURAL
  Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes. Syn. -- See Factitious. -- Un*nat"u*ral*ly, adv. -- Un*nat"u*ral*ness, n.
• GROWTH
  1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
• GROWTHFUL
  Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
• ABNORMALLY
  In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.
• UNNATURALIZE
  To make unnatural. Hales.
• ABNORMALITY
  1. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. Darwin. 2. Something abnormal.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• UPGROWTH
  The process or result of growing up; progress; development. The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. J. R. Green.
• OVERGROWTH
  Excessive growth.
• REGROWTH
  The act of regrowing; a second or new growth. Darwin. The regrowth of limbs which had been cut off. A. B. Buckley.
• AFTERGROWTH
  A second growth or crop, or development. J. S. Mill.
• UNDERGROWTH
  That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees. Milton.