unshaped

[ uhn-sheypt ]

adjective

1. not shaped shape or definitely formed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unshaped¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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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!

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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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