unshapen
Americanadjective
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not shaped or definitely formed; shapeless; formless; indefinite.
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not shapely; unpleasing in shape; ill-formed.
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misshapen or deformed.
adjective
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having no definite shape; shapeless
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deformed; misshapen
Etymology
Origin of unshapen
1300–50; Middle English; Old English unsceapen. See un- 1, shape, -en 3
Example Sentences
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It was rough and dank as the rest, a heavy unshapen paving-stone: yet he felt the power of it as if it spoke to him aloud.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
They passed on, Gollum in front and the hobbits now side by side, up the long ravine between the piers and columns of torn and weathered rock, standing like huge unshapen statues on either hand.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Comparing Cowley's and Crashaw's 'Hope,' Coleridge thus pronounces on them: 'Crashaw seems in his poems to have given the first ebullience of his imagination, unshapen into form, or much of what we now term sweetness.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Such a desire was the mother of monstrous and unshapen things.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
For, indeed, they are unacquainted with the use of mortar and tiles; and for every purpose employ rude unshapen timber, fashioned with no regard to pleasing the eye.
From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus, Cornelius
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