shapeless
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈʃeɪpləs/
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sin forma
- In her long dimity nightgown, she was short, shapeless, and cushiony-looking.
Like, what do you do when you just have fine, flat, long, shapeless hair?
- Like, what do you do when you just have fine, flat, long, shapeless hair?
- Looking over his shoulder he saw that something was crouching beside the closed door, a shapeless clot of shadow, darker than the darkness.
- Its light dies away within it, and it vanishes like a shapeless vapor that dissolves into thin air.
Examples
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A Regulan blood worm is soft and shapeless.
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The artist created a shapeless sculpture that looked like a cloud.
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Like a shapeless, growing thing.
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So it's beautiful, but it's also shapeless, which is always really disappointing.
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Let's take on the day in our shapeless T-shirt dress.
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Against the opposite wall, a shapeless heap of blankets lay on an old mattress.
Fiction book (1991) -
The door swung inward, carrying him with it, a shapeless bundle of robes.
Fiction book (1993) -
Billy finally touched his hand to the brim of his shapeless hat in acknowledgment and then addressed Hock.
Fiction book (1992) -
It's like this is sounding like an elder God from Cthulhu, like a shapeless, formless, timeless entity.
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He wore a shapeless coat that hung loosely from his shoulders.
Synonyms
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5.6
Something that has no clear shape, like fog or a cloud
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7.3
Not having a clear shape or regular structure
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5.4
Not fully developed or given a clear shape
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5.5
Not made into a finished object
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9.6
A thing that has no clear form yet
Not having a clear shape or form and often changing
Not having a clear shape or form
Without a clear shape or form
Not having a regular internal pattern like crystals
Antonyms
How Shapeless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word shapeless comes from the simple parts shape (meaning 'form') and the ending -less (meaning 'without'). So it literally means 'without shape', like a wet coat or a lump of clay that has no clear form.