shapeless
adjective
having no definite or regular shape or form.
shapelessness
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a word derived from
shapeless.
Example Sentences
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Its relative shapelessness, along with its use of a ghostwriter, doesn’t bolster her literary credentials, but its existence points to Monroe’s ambition to have them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
If anything, his success makes failure hang off Henry's shoulders with a glaring shapelessness.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023
That “Heat” is plotted as tightly as a Swiss watch makes the shapelessness of this follow-up all the harder to forgive.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022
Shape keeps emerging from shapelessness, and it’s hard to say how.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2016
It might be gebbeth still, clothed in Skiorh's death, or it might be hidden in the gathering darkness, waiting to seize him and merge its shapelessness with his living flesh.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
