Unsymmetrical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unsymmetrical \Un`sym*met"ric*al\, a.
     1. Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion pf parts.
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     2. (Biol.) Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the
        parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size


        and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ
        in number. See {Symmetry}.
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     3. (Chem.) Being without symmetry of chemical structure or
        relation; as, an unsymmetrical carbon atom.
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     {Unsymmetrical carbon atom} (Chem.), one which is united at
        once to four different atoms or radicals. This condition
        usually occasions physical isomerism, with the attendant
        action on polarized light.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unsymmetrical
       adj 1: lacking symmetry [syn: {unsymmetric}]
       2: having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or
          measurements [syn: {anisometric}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "unsymmetrical":
     aimless, amorphous, anamorphous, askew, asymmetric, bent, bowed,
     capricious, casual, cockeyed, contorted, crazy, crooked, crumpled,
     crunched, desultory, deviative, disarticulated, discontinuous,
     disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, distorted,
     erratic, fitful, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, haphazard,
     hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate,
     irregular, labyrinthine, lopsided, meaningless, misshapen,
     nonsymmetric, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform,
     off-balance, one-sided, orderless, overbalanced, planless,
     promiscuous, random, senseless, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic,
     sprung, straggling, straggly, systemless, tortuous, twisted,
     unarranged, unclassified, undirected, unequal, uneven, ungraded,
     unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted,
     unsymmetric, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering, warped