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
It cannot be denied that he leaves imbedded in his fabric lumps of unshapen material, which mar the symmetry of his art.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
To suit the coquetry of the age the pinafore was enriched with certain flouncings, which, however, only intensified its unshapen ugliness.
From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold
An unshapen thought presents itself to me, I look at it, and I do all in my power to give it body and expression, but I cannot.
From Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott by Rutherford, Mark
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