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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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The domestic security net is as strong yet as delicate as a spider web, as omnipresent yet as shapeless as water.
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Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
Now, in the diffuse and shapeless post-vaccine Biden era, both antihero shows and sweet shows seem to have run out of steam.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
Here is the elephant so far: Thirteen billion years ago, in a universe that was then less than a billion years old, the Milky Way was born as a shapeless cloud of gas and dust, forming metal-poor stars and rotating incoherently so that its stars' orbits were also haphazard.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
The real problem is the script (by Costner and Jon Baird), which is shapeless.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
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Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
Now, in the diffuse and shapeless post-vaccine Biden era, both antihero shows and sweet shows seem to have run out of steam.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
Here is the elephant so far: Thirteen billion years ago, in a universe that was then less than a billion years old, the Milky Way was born as a shapeless cloud of gas and dust, forming metal-poor stars and rotating incoherently so that its stars' orbits were also haphazard.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
The real problem is the script (by Costner and Jon Baird), which is shapeless.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
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“Shapeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shapeless. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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