Unsymmetrical
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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