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unshaped

[ uhn-sheypt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1565–75; un- ¹ + shaped

My own unshaped, half-conscious aims and aspirations, stirred with life, took wing and soared with his into the pure upper air.

I feel as if nothing but the chisel would satisfy me; as if I could rush in a rage at a block of unshaped marble.

For the moment, though he knew not why, life seemed to hold a vague, unshaped interest for him.

Ah, that Jean, of whom she had been thinking that very day, happy in the unshaped hope that perhaps she might see him once again!

She really could not be quite what she seemed to be—that was the unshaped thought in the back of his brain.

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