Quick Definition
ἀσχήμων, ον Adj unseemly, indecent
Strong's Definition
properly, shapeless, i.e. (figuratively) inelegant
Derivation: from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G2192 (ἔχω) (in the sense of its congener G4976 (σχῆμα));
KJV Usage: uncomely
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον
79.16 · Features of Objects · Beautiful, Ugly
unattractive, ugly, unpresentable pertaining to being unattractive or unseemly
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀσχήμων, -ovos, neut. ἄσχημον, (σχῆμα); a: deformed. b. indecent, unseemly: 1 Co. xii. 23, opp. to εὐσχήμων. ({Hadt.], Xen., Plat., and subseq. writ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀσχήμων aschēmōn 1x
indecorous, uncomely, indecent, 1 Cor. 12:23*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀσχήμων, -ον
(< ἀ- neg., σχῆμα), [in LXX: Ge 34:7 (נְבָלָה), De 24:1 (עֶרְוָה), Wi 2:20, Da TH Sus 63, II Mac 9:2*;]
shapeless.
uncomely, unseemly: I Co 12:23.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀσχήμων. Syll 653" (B.C. 91) μηθὲν ἄσχημον μηδὲ ἄδικον ποιήσειν. A ‘late form” of the adj. (LS, who quote Polemo, a writer of ii/A.D.) is found in P Ryl 11. 14418 (A.D. 38) παρεχρήσατό por πολλὰ καὶ ἄσχημα, ‘subjected me to much shameful mishandling ’’ (Edd.), The ordinary form occurs in another petition of the same group, 76. 150!) (A.D. 40-1) ἐκακολόγησεν πολλὰ Kal ἀ[σ]χήμονα. So Vettius Valens p. 6218 ἀτυχεῖς καὶ ἀσχήμονας.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀσχήμων (aschēmōn) — indecent. ἀσχήμ-ων, ον, genitive ονος, (σχῆμα) misshapen, ugly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. unseemly, shameful, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. of persons, ἀ. γενέσθαι to be indecorous, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. adverb -νως[Refs 1st c.BC+]: superlative -έστατα very meanly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]