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shapeless

shapeless adjective: without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.

Adjective

shapeless (comparative more shapeless, superlative most shapeless)

  1. Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.
    • If you skip the prelude, which is at once rhythmically square and shapeless, this Lohengrin starts out decently enough, for Hans Helm is one of the okayest Heralds on disc (a modest compliment, to be sure).1976, Records in Review, page 407
    Synonyms:
    amorphous, formless

shapeless meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati

shapeless in Bengali

আকারহীন, কদাকার

shapeless in Malayalam

വടിവില്ലാത്ത, സ്വരൂപമില്ലാത്ത, വിരൂപമായ, രൂപമില്ലാത്ത, വിലക്ഷണമായ

shapeless in Kannada

ಪಾಂಗಿಲ್ಲದ, ಪಾಂಗುಗೆಟ್ಟ

shapeless in Gujarati

without a shape
કદરૂપું kadrūpũ, બેડોળ beḍoḷ

Examples of shapeless in a sentence

  • Her body was thick in a shapeless outing flannel bathrobe many moons past color and design.
  • His eyes have been closed to a squink, seeing only a blurred shapeless bright light under his eyelids.
  • Christ's gesturing but rather shapeless hand is painted thinly in brown, wet-in-wet over the more pastose light paint of the architecture.

All 10 example sentences with shapeless

Synonyms of shapeless

Forms of shapeless

comparativemore shapeless
superlativemost shapeless

Origin of shapeless

Inherited from Middle English schaples. By surface analysis, shape + -less.

Words formed from shapeless

Questions about shapeless

What does shapeless mean?
Shapeless means without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.
What is shapeless in Bengali?
Shapeless in Bengali is আকারহীন, কদাকার. See Shapeless meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is shapeless?
Shapeless is an adjective.

Words near shapeless in the dictionary

  1. shapedness
  2. shapedst
  3. shapefile
  4. shapefiles
  5. shapeful
  6. shapeless
  7. shapelessly
  8. shapelessness
  9. shapelessnesses
  10. shapelet
  11. shapelets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shapeless (page history and authors); shapeless (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shapeless (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shapeless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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