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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
Spurs are hapless, listless, shapeless, themeless, hopeless.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
Its largely shapeless silhouette moved effortlessly in and out of the frame with a hem that fell well below her knee.
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Emma Banks,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
Episodes are long, rambling, and shapeless.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Dec. 2025
In a season where heavy, shapeless hair is no longer acceptable, the butterfly bob becomes the perfect alternative to the classic bob.
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Dulce Moncada,
Glamour,
23 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shapeless
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
Its largely shapeless silhouette moved effortlessly in and out of the frame with a hem that fell well below her knee.
—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
Episodes are long, rambling, and shapeless.
—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Dec. 2025
In a season where heavy, shapeless hair is no longer acceptable, the butterfly bob becomes the perfect alternative to the classic bob.
—
Dulce Moncada,
Glamour,
23 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shapeless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shapeless
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In many cases, Kallis said, the roots of this behavior were planted long before, frequently through trauma, abuse, isolation, addiction or distorted coping mechanisms that were never confronted or healed.
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Letting go of these items leads to regret for the loss of nostalgia and passing on true history for a distorted version.
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For two and a half centuries, Americans across the political spectrum have projected their own ideals onto this amorphous country.
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Scroll long enough, and eventually a sound will penetrate the amorphous fog of noise coming from your phone and nestle itself deep into your psyche.
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Plath shows up in Dederer’s book about (mostly) men who make great art and live monstrous lives (and what to do with them), but only as a woman who turns her violent tendencies against herself.
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Smiley slashes Mari across the belly and Fatima lets out a monstrous shriek.
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In contrast to the article’s portrait of a formless contest, recent polling portrays a race that is becoming more structured.
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Slowing and congealing the formless language of my thoughts.
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But her sister’s head was grievously misshapen.
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For Paris in Miami, the real answers came from hormone tests and a semen analysis, which pointed to low morphology, or misshapen sperm.
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Interview with the Vampire’s composer Daniel Hart has taken the audience on a wonderfully chaotic journey through different styles of music in The Vampire Lestat.
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The events surrounding the funeral were chaotic, with eight people killed and hundreds injured, according to a report written by the Associated Press news agency at the time.
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Sensitive data appears in unstructured documents, malformed files, collaboration tools and AI workflows that summarize, transform and combine information.
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The following year, James and Carter were nominated for a Primetime Emmy award for unstructured reality program Becoming.
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More than a hundred years after unformed marble passed through her hands and into human form, her works are at long last assembled together to speak as a kind of family.
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Davidson’s chat with Kelly has no structure, no segments, and no particular gimmick; and while none of that is required of a podcast, some sense of organization can help shape an otherwise-unformed snippet of conversation.
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“Shapeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shapeless. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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