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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shaped -shaped

“Not quite satisfied with how things shaped up on the pitching side at the end of the year,” Ohtani said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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

The findings also demonstrate why scientists must draw on several independent methods when reconstructing population histories, particularly when written records are incomplete, unreliable, or shaped by historical biases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Communities are shaped by the ways we participate in them.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

It’s shaped like a capsule and made of 8-inch-thick steel.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

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

Most specimens have the vomerine teeth situated on -shaped elevations, but in some individuals the elevations are more nearly transversely situated between the inner nares.

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

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