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# shapeless

adjective (shapeless, more shapeless, most shapeless)

«shapeless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Having no clear or definite shape. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#m1)
2. (clothes) Loose and baggy, not fitting the body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#m2)
3. Not well organised: a shapeless story. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#m3)

### In the lessons

In art and science, shapeless things like clouds, jelly or blobs of clay have no fixed shape; liquids and gases take the shape of their container. In stories, a "shapeless figure in the fog" is mysterious and scary. Phrases: a shapeless jumper, a shapeless mass, a shapeless lump.

### Examples

- The clay was a shapeless lump until she made a pot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#x1)
- He wore a big, shapeless jumper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#x2)
- A shapeless figure moved in the mist. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#x3)
- Water is shapeless; it takes the shape of the glass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#x4)
- The essay was long and shapeless. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#x5)
- The melted snowman became a shapeless heap. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#x6)

### Note

shape + -less (without). Noun: shapelessness. Opposite: shapely (having a nice shape) or well-shaped.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «shapeless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shapeless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/shapeless.html) on Mova free.