ill-shapen s so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly an ill-shapen vase Usage(s) It would have been coarse, ill-shapen, irritating to the skin, offensive to the nose. Amid the grazing goats and the lagoons, the basilica looks like an ill-shapen mushroom, massive from a distance and strangely sterile up close. Synonym(s) deformed distorted malformed misshapen