Am I right?

Question

I'm writing a story and one of my character was in a fire. He is alive but his face hace been slightly burned. Would I be correct if I described his face as being "singed"?

My character has that sort of "plasticy" wrinkle to his burned area. Would I be right then?

Answer 1

None of the words that I can see suggested so far would make me think of what you describe. The man simply has burn scars on his face, or his face is scarred from the burn. You can have other characters in the book say that it looks like plastic to them, but for your readers it should just be burn scars.

Answer 2

Instead of "singed" I would use "seared" because that has to do with the surface burning of organic tissue. On the second word, I think you mean "plasticity" and that would be fine for describing the wrinkle because it was formed as a result of the burn.

Answer 3

Yes, that would be acceptable, although it would convey a feeling of whimsy or mild humor. If that's not what you had in mind, you could just use the phrase slightly burned, as in your question.

The word singed is more commonly used with inanimate objects, such as a piece of paper burnt around the edges.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Maybe, singed implies that there is no real damage, there will be no scars. If you singed your hair, it would smell and be shorter but would basically change nothing. If this is true of your character, then yes that would be an appropriate description.

Answer 5

No, unless you're talking about his eyebrows, mustach, facial hair, etc. How about scorched, toasted, parched, mauled, contused, disfigured, the latter three, would probably be closest to describing his face, like his mauled face, or the creases in his disfigured face, use the thesaurus, at dictionary.com

Answer 6

"Singe" means to scorch something lightly and The past tense of singe is "singed"........so you would be correct.

Answer 7

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