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# shapely

«shapely» in Mova's school dictionary: **having a pleasing, well-balanced shape or form** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (shapely, shapelier, shapeliest)

### meaning for a pupil

Shapely means having a pleasing, well-balanced shape or form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapely/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

used in tales to praise a neat, well-made thing, such as a house, a boat or a tree; it describes looks, not size

### examples

- The shapely little boat bobbed on the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapely/#x1)
- We admired the shapely trees in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapely/#x2)
- The castle had shapely towers and tall windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shapely/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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