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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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
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
Sometimes, however, his thoughts are unshapen, and as it were rough-hewn and rugged.
From On the Sublime by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
It looked like a settler's shack, built of rough, unshapen logs and thatched with rushes.
From Kimono by John Paris
He had only his unshapen dreams that battled with him in dark places, the unborn that struggled in his brain for birth.
From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Sibert Cather
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