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as in distorted
badly or imperfectly formed
a shapeless old hat
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as in amorphous
having no definite or recognizable form
right now this clay is just a shapeless lump, but wait until I'm done sculpting it
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Recent Examples of shapeless
Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract.
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Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
With villains ranging from all-powerful shapeless beings to merry pranksters of the mind, this is a show that dips its toe in the superhero pool right before delivering the world’s most graceful and enigmatic cannonball.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 25 July 2024
On every hand are old men and women, seamed, withered, shapeless, big-jointed from a lifetime of hard labor with corn and pigs.
—Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
The domestic security net is as strong yet as delicate as a spider web, as omnipresent yet as shapeless as water.
—Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
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Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
With villains ranging from all-powerful shapeless beings to merry pranksters of the mind, this is a show that dips its toe in the superhero pool right before delivering the world’s most graceful and enigmatic cannonball.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 25 July 2024
On every hand are old men and women, seamed, withered, shapeless, big-jointed from a lifetime of hard labor with corn and pigs.
—Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
The domestic security net is as strong yet as delicate as a spider web, as omnipresent yet as shapeless as water.
—Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shapeless
Adjective
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Many of the photos are rarely seen, including some of distorted celebrity photos that were commissioned by major magazines.—
Matt Shaw,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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After losing his wife and creative partner, Mimi Parker, to cancer, ending the band Low, Alan Sparhawk wades through distorted solo songs of grief at Elsewhere (April 2).—
Shauna Lyon,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The city is both geographically and spiritually amorphous.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2025
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This is not one potentially wealthy amorphous group with gray hair.—
Tim Wragg,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Most notorious and monstrous of all: the party host himself, Harvey Weinstein.—
Scott Huver,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Feb. 2025
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Ed’s monstrous behavior under the influence of cortisone shatters the veneer of middle-class gentility to reveal the fault lines repressed beneath it.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others.—
Ramesh Ponnuru,
National Review,
19 Dec. 2024
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That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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Sickle cell is a blood disorder in which a person’s red blood cells become misshapen into crescent moons.—
Bertha Coombs,
CNBC,
18 Feb. 2025
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Some of the wheels of Swiss cheese made in his factory in Pennsylvania inevitably broke or were misshapen, leaving a plethora of bits and blocks of cheese that Weisl was desperate to salvage.—
David Levine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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This fresh, modern reimagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic by Andrew Ahn follows a group of friends who need to get married for convenience—until family arrives, and the plan spirals into extravagant, chaotic mayhem.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2025
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Moreover, the chaotic layoff of federal workers will likely lead to a rise in unemployment and tightening of spending by those losing their jobs.—
Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This approach enables the integration of multiple AI agents and diverse data sources – from structured database information to unstructured documents on personal devices.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Male Alzheimer’s caregivers group: The Men’s Breakfast Club is an informal and unstructured gathering of male caregivers.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2025
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In his sparse notebooks, his childish, unformed handwriting was endearing to me.—
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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As chief of patrol, the No. 2 unformed official, Chell has feuded wildly and needlessly with the press and politicians while leading a secretive and highly aggressive quality of life unit.—
Harry Siegel,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Shapeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shapeless. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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