noun
Meaning 1
The property of being shapeless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
shapelessness
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noun
Meaning 2
The result or product of being shapeless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 3
the quality of lacking an esthetically pleasing shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: unattractiveness
noun
Meaning 4
an amorphous or indefinite shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a shapeless mass
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: amorphous shape
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English schaples English shapeless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English shapelessness From shapeless + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: безформеност (bezformenost) — property of being shapeless
- German: Formlosigkeit — property of being shapeless
- German: Gestaltlosigkeit — property of being shapeless
- German: Unförmigkeit — property of being shapeless
- Greek: αμορφία (amorfía) — property of being shapeless
- Hungarian: alaktalanság — property of being shapeless
- Polish: bezkształt — property of being shapeless
- Polish: bezkształtność — property of being shapeless
- Polish: magmowatość — property of being shapeless
- Portuguese: amorfismo — property of being shapeless