shaped

American

[shaypt] / ʃeɪpt /

adjective

of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination).

a U-shaped driveway.
designed to fit a particular form, body, or contour.

a shaped garment.
Furniture. having other than a plane surface.

-shaped British

/ ʃeɪpt /

combining form

having the shape of

an L-shaped room
a pear-shaped figure

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

well-shaped

adjective

Etymology

Origin of shaped

First recorded in 1530–40; shape + -ed ²

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He spoke about his many fixed footballing principles but believes the route to accomplishing those ideas must be shaped by the players at his disposal.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Being a Sri Lankan while living in the U.K. has shaped the comedic perspective of Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Pringles’ Halloween sweepstake promises one winner a metal urn shaped like the brand’s cylindrical cans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

These included an oval opening where the spinal cord connected to the brain and a distinctive crest shaped like an hourglass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

As the pilots trained at Area 51, people all over the American West started seeing oddly shaped ships soaring far higher than any plane they knew of.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Also appealing and true to its common name, but for brighter light: string of pearls, Senecio rowleyanus, a South African species with succulent pea-sized and -shaped leaves that cascade over a pot edge.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2021

Into that -shaped void has been thrust the third series of the French law and order procedural, Spiral.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011

Since some people are convinced that dowsing, A B a method of finding underground water with a Y -shaped stick, is effective, but others condemn the procedure ~ mere superstition.

From SAT Tests

Tongue ovoid, barely notched behind and slightly free posteriorly; vomerine teeth 2-3, situated on -shaped elevations between round inner nares; openings to vocal sac large, one situated along inner posterior edge of each mandibular ramus.

From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William E. Duellman

These were patterns made up of squares or -shaped lines interlaced and made to seem intricate, though originally simple.

From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith

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