unshaped

[ uhn-sheypt ]
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adjective
  1. not shaped or definitely formed.

Origin of unshaped

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

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How to use unshaped in a sentence

  • 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.

    Roderick Hudson | Henry James
  • For the moment, though he knew not why, life seemed to hold a vague, unshaped interest for him.

    Carmen Ariza | Charles Francis Stocking
  • 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!

    The Downfall | Emile Zola
  • She really could not be quite what she seemed to be—that was the unshaped thought in the back of his brain.