SHAPELESS Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

shapeless

adjective

ˈshā-pləs

Definition of shapeless

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 The dress was designed with a shapeless, flowing silhouette, with sleeveless element and maxi hem. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 27 Feb. 2026 Then, after the adults come into the frame and Toha dresses in shapeless clothes and a headscarf, their social position and economic circumstances become much clearer. — Alissa Simon, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026 Spurs are hapless, listless, shapeless, themeless, hopeless. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026 Its largely shapeless silhouette moved effortlessly in and out of the frame with a hem that fell well below her knee. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shapeless

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Adjective

The shoegaze sound keeps evolving, as young artists keep hearing themselves in those mega-distorted waves of guitar fuzz.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
Hanlen acknowledged the political attention Cunningham has attracted and suggested the public often receives a distorted impression of her.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of distorted

Adjective

Ride Lonesome is amorphous, hazy, dappled, and almost impossibly pretty.

— Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026
Done well, this will make concrete what was amorphous for the exuberant, empower the reluctant and define your moral and ethical codes for the fearful.

— Elias Stahl, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of amorphous

Adjective

One imagines Dahl, whose sometimes monstrous characters captured childhood in all its messiness, would be relieved.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026
Alas, Bryan not only becomes a monster, but Michelle’s last memory of him is his rather monstrous response to the prospect of having a child together.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of monstrous

Adjective

Inevitably, much of that knowledge was still undigested and poorly sorted; as a result the planet, viewed from Europe, must have seemed a rather impressionistic and formless place.

— Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
Musicians have long sought to give form to the formless, unconstrained yet palatable, inspirational and divine.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026

Definition of formless

Adjective

This vast misshapen island was traditionally noted for ghosts, folktales, eccentricity, fish, and friendliness.

— Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
The show notes describe the opening hoodies and sweatpants as deliberately misshapen, with an oversized silhouette and heavy jackets worn open.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of misshapen

Adjective

Saturdays on the couch before the widescreen with beer, chicken wings and cheese dip might also be the best way to escape our ugly, chaotic politics.

— Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have discovered that passing waves through a special class of synthetic media forces them to abandon chaotic scattering entirely.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of chaotic

Adjective

To pull off this look, regardless of the cut, straighten the roots perfectly and, from midlengths to ends, go for unstructured waves or a tousled effect.

— María Diez, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2026
Yesterday morning, at Milan’s Palazzo del Ghiaccio, Max Mara showed a collection of funnel-neck trench coats, unstructured blazers and linen safari jackets in mousy shades of grey and brown for spring 2027.

— Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of unstructured

Adjective

On the contrary, its unformed shape and melange of styles add to the sense that Teng is actively searching for the answer to that question with every cut.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
This Tony, the future bad-boy tell-all insider of the culinary world, is still touchingly unformed—a mortar full of raw, pasty potential, crying out for life experience to pestle him into shape.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026

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