adj
Meaning 1
Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
shapeless
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: SH EY1 P L AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
lacking symmetry or attractive form
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a shapeless hat on his head
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
having no definite form or distinct shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- amorphous clouds of insects
- an aggregate of formless particles
- a shapeless mass of protoplasm
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: amorphous, formless
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *gaskap Old English ġesċeap Proto-Germanic *skapą Proto-West Germanic *skap Old English sċeap Middle English schap Proto-Indo-European *lewh1- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les Middle English schaples English shapeless Inherited from Middle English schaples. By surface analysis, shape + -less.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: безформен (bezformen) — without a shape
- Esperanto: senforma — without a shape
- Ancient Greek: ἄμορφος (ámorphos) — without a shape
- Gujarati: કદરૂપું (kadrūpũ) — without a shape
- Gujarati: બેડોળ (beḍoḷ) — without a shape
- Hungarian: alaktalan — without a shape
- Hungarian: formátlan — without a shape
- Hungarian: idomtalan — without a shape
- Latin: informis — without a shape
- Macedonian: безобличен (bezobličen) — without a shape
- Middle English: schaples — without a shape
- Polish: bezkształtny — without a shape
- Polish: bezpostaciowy — without a shape
- Russian: бесфо́рменный (besfórmennyj) — without a shape
- Swedish: oformlig — without a shape
- Swedish: formlös — without a shape
- Turkish: şekilsiz — without a shape
- Ottoman Turkish: شكلسز (şekilsiz) — without a shape