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shapeless

[sheyp-lis]

adjective

having no definite or regular shape or form: a shapeless mass of clay.

lacking beauty or elegance of form.

Origin:
1250–1300; shape + -less; replacing Middle English scaples

Related forms

shape·less·ly, adverb

shape·less·ness, noun

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shapeless (ˈʃeɪplɪs)

—*adj*
1.	having no definite shape or form: a shapeless mass; a shapeless argument
2.	lacking a symmetrical or aesthetically pleasing shape: a shapeless figure

'shapelessly

—*adv*

'shapelessness

—n

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"For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect."

-Henry Brooks Adams

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