shapeless
Americanadjective
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having no definite or regular shape or form.
a shapeless mass of clay.
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lacking beauty or elegance of form.
adjective
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having no definite shape or form
a shapeless mass
a shapeless argument
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lacking a symmetrical or aesthetically pleasing shape
a shapeless figure
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Example Sentences
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When “The Shapeless Unease” remains focused on its subject, it engages and grips.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2020
“The Shapeless Unease” considers science and spirituality but ultimately rests, as it were, on language: its limits, and its possibilities.
From New York Times • May 12, 2020
The book I am currently reading The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey, her memoir, in essays and fragments, about sleeplessness.
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2020
Shapeless in itself, it can take MI multitudinous shapes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shapeless and grim, A Shadow dim O'erhung the ways, And darkened all my days.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by Oxenham, John
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