shapeless as an adjective: - 1
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shapeless
adjective
1 shapeless
Having no definite form or distinct shape:
— A shapeless mass of protoplasm.
synonyms: amorphous, formless.
Roget 59:
disorderly,
orderless;
out of order,
out of place,
out of gear;
irregular,
desultory;
anomalous
etc.
(unconformable)
83;
acephalous†,
deranged;
aimless;
disorganized;
straggling;
unmethodical,
immethodical†;
unsymmetric†,
unsystematic;
untidy,
slovenly;
dislocated;
out of sorts;
promiscuous,
indiscriminate;
chaotic,
anarchical;
unarranged
etc.
(arrange)
etc.
60;
confused;
deranged
etc.
61;
topsy-turvy
etc.
(inverted)
218;
shapeless
etc.
241;
disjointed,
out of joint.
troublous†;
riotous
etc.
(violent)
173.
complex
etc.
59.1.
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Roget 241:
shapeless,
amorphous,
formless;
unformed,
unhewn†,
unfashioned†,
unshaped,
unshapen;
rough,
rude,
Gothic,
barbarous,
rugged.
Roget 846:
ugly,
ugly as sin,
ugly as a toad,
ugly as a scarecrow,
ugly as a dead monkey;
plain,
bald
(unadorned)
849;
homely;
ordinary,
unornamental†,
inartistic;
unsightly,
unseemly,
uncomely,
unlovely;
unshapely;
sightless,
seemless†;
not fit to be seen;
unbeauteous†,
unbeautiful;
beautiless†,
semibeautiful;
shapeless
etc.
(amorphous)
241.
misshapen,
misproportioned†;
monstrous;
gaunt
etc.
(thin)
203;
dumpy
etc.
(short)
201;
curtailed of its fair proportions;
ill-made,
ill-shaped,
ill-proportioned;
crooked
etc.
(distorted)
243;
hard featured,
hard visaged;
ill-favored,
hard-favored,
evil-favored;
ill-looking;
unprepossessing,
unattractive,
uninviting,
unpleasing.
graceless,
inelegant;
ungraceful,
ungainly,
uncouth,
stiff;
rugged,
rough,
gross,
rude,
awkward,
clumsy,
slouching,
rickety;
gawky;
lumping,
lumpish†;
lumbering;
hulky†,
hulking;
unwieldy.
squalid,
haggard;
grim,
grim faced,
grim visaged;
grisly,
ghastly;
ghost like,
death like;
cadaverous,
grewsome†,
gruesome.
frightful,
hideous,
odious,
uncanny,
forbidding;
repellant,
repulsive,
repugnant,
grotesque,
bizarre;
grody [Coll.],
grody to the max [Coll.];
horrid,
horrible;
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
foul
etc.
(dirty)
653;
dingy
etc.
(colorless)
429;
gaudy
etc.
(color)
428;
disfigured
etc.
v.;
discolored.
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Polish: bezpostaciowy, amorficzny, bezkształtny, nieforemny, bezforemny
2 shapeless
Lacking symmetry or attractive form.
Polish: bezpostaciowy, amorficzny, bezkształtny, nieforemny, bezforemny
Moby thesaurus: aberrant, abnormal, adrift, afloat, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, alternating, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, anomalistic, anomalous, baggy, battered, bent, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, cacogenic, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, changeable, changeful, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, deformed, desultory, deviable, deviative, different, dim, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, distorted, divergent, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, featureless, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy, formless, freakish, frivolous, fuzzy, gargoylish, general, giddy, gratuitous, grotesque, haphazard, hazy, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, immethodical, impetuous, imprecise, impulsive, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, infirm, inform, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, malformed, mazy, meaningless, mercurial, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, misty, monstrous, moody, muddy, murky, nebulous, nondescript, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, opaque, orderless, planless, promiscuous, rambling, random, restless, roving, scatterbrained, senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray, straying, subnormal, sweeping, systemless, teratic, transcendent, twisted, unaccountable, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, unclear, uncontrolled, undefined, undependable, undestined, undetermined, undirected, undisciplined, unfixed, unformed, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unnatural, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unshaped, unshapely, unsorted, unspecified, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable, veiled, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy ... show more.
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