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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
Toward the end, though, this dubious, shapeless patchwork of a movie does achieve a strange, halting power—by making an inquiry into the nature of power itself.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
When the fish are brought to the surface, however, the comparative lack of pressure causes their bodies to collapse into shapeless puddles of goo.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Some compress you like a sausage casing, others sag into shapeless blobs after one wash, and the worst?
—Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct structures of winding spiral arms, elliptical galaxies are rather shapeless.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
When the fish are brought to the surface, however, the comparative lack of pressure causes their bodies to collapse into shapeless puddles of goo.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Some compress you like a sausage casing, others sag into shapeless blobs after one wash, and the worst?
—Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct structures of winding spiral arms, elliptical galaxies are rather shapeless.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shapeless
Adjective
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These protective thoughts are normal, but unhelpful and may be a little distorted.—
Chamin Ajjan,
CNBC,
12 July 2025
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The distorted, slow-motion sound feels like sinking quicksand, and the ornamental qanun strings are perfect for Abu Dhabi plug talk.—
Peter A. Berry,
Variety,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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Her pieces usually have an amorphous shape imitating the outline of the plant’s transversal cut, like a very thin slice of a branch, root, leaf or seed.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 June 2025
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For Williams, a structure of feeling encompasses values, outlooks, expressions, and impulses that, while amorphous and broad, nevertheless structure culture and have real impacts in the world.—
Sonja Drimmer,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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On a tiny Caribbean island near Costa Rica, a megalomaniacal tycoon (Richard Attenborough) has set up an animal preserve that is half theme park, half monstrous Bronx Zoo.—
David Denby,
Vulture,
3 July 2025
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These winds should be powerful enough to blow the outer layers of these monstrous stars into space.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 July 2025
Adjective
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Instead, in too many formless episodes, Season 4 favors quiet solo scenes (Syd perfects a dish amid dramatic lighting and a haunting St. Vincent track, in a set piece that looks lovely but has nothing new to say) and earnest two-handers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 June 2025
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But if Charity’s case history imposes some order and fixity on Eugene’s life, the rest of The Knockout Artist reads like an attempt to thwart this, to replace the tidiness of explanation with something more formless and free.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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People with sickle cell disease produce misshapen red blood cells that can block blood flow to the rest of the body.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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Over time, the foot becomes misshapen, and ulcers and serious infections can develop.1 What Is Charcot Foot?—
Isabel Casimiro,
Verywell Health,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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The enforcement sparked a chaotic scene at the cannabis farms, the USA TODAY Network in California reported.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
14 July 2025
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In 1945, a rare Stradivarius violin was stolen from a Berlin bank during the chaotic end of World War II.—
Asia London Palomba,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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Is the data clean and structured, or messy and unstructured?—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
10 July 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,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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The serious implication of it in the context of a Western, regarding the frontier as a place where state power is unformed, loose, and dubious, remains anecdotal and undeveloped.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 May 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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“Shapeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shapeless. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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