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# shapeless

«shapeless» in Mova's school dictionary: **Having no clear or definite shape** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (shapeless, more shapeless, most shapeless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Having no clear or definite shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#m1)

2) (clothes) Loose and baggy, not fitting the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#m2)

3) Not well organised: a shapeless story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [Galaxies come in main shapes: spirals like ours, round or oval ellipticals, and shapeless irregulars.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shapeless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapeless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.