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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Haloed in distorted guitar and jagged synths, Wolf comes off as a champion of her own avoidance, her heroism charmingly pathetic.

— Enzo Escober, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
Sometimes Paula chooses to turn the camera on herself, but the film is mostly composed of distorted moving images of contemporary Paris which, in many aspects, still looks like the version of Paris that Choi saw.

— Thomas Patier, Artforum, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of distorted

Adjective

That decision, upheld on appeal, put the onus on the Continuum of Care, an amorphous entity with a board and open membership that had long functioned as an appendage of LAHSA but actually had the statutory power to hire or fire the agency.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
Ride Lonesome is amorphous, hazy, dappled, and almost impossibly pretty.

— Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of amorphous

Adjective

But when the voice on the phone takes a dark turn, Maeve keeps listening, pulling her family further into a monstrous secret.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Publicly sharing Hasan’s death is unlikely to deter future acts of monstrous aggression, as Hegseth claims.

— Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of monstrous

Adjective

Its formless body accommodated slouching, lounging or lying down, selling freedom from both conventional posture and the bourgeois living room.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of formless

Adjective

Shoppers who believe that food appearance is important tend to judge misshapen produce as lower quality.

— Jintao Zhang, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026
If the cookies have overspread or are misshapen, use a spoon to push the cookie edge toward the center to finesse their shape.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of misshapen

Adjective

Meloni's right-wing coalition says the change will lead to more stable governments and avoid chaotic post-election dealmaking.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026
In a recent Nature study, Stoliker’s team designed an experiment to test whether these directions are truly chaotic and random.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of chaotic

Adjective

Pamir, which uses machine learning to scrape, parse and categorize vast amounts of unstructured video, image and social media data for its SaaS database, offers another tool.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
Reviews and customer questions are unstructured information about your product, written in the exact language real customers use.

— Usman Ilyas, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of unstructured

Adjective

The same goes for Abra, who also feels a little too unformed in Zoe Phillips’s hands.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
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

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