shapeless

«shapeless» in Mova's school dictionary: Having no clear or definite shape — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (shapeless, more shapeless, most shapeless)

meaning for a pupil

1) Having no clear or definite shape. tree →

2) (clothes) Loose and baggy, not fitting the body. tree →

3) Not well organised: a shapeless story. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art and science, shapeless things like clouds, jelly or blobs of clay have no fixed shape; liquids and gases take the shape of their container. In stories, a "shapeless figure in the fog" is mysterious and scary. Phrases: a shapeless jumper, a shapeless mass, a shapeless lump.

examples

• The clay was a shapeless lump until she made a pot. tree →
• He wore a big, shapeless jumper. tree →
• A shapeless figure moved in the mist. tree →
• Water is shapeless; it takes the shape of the glass. tree →
• The essay was long and shapeless. tree →
• The melted snowman became a shapeless heap. tree →

note

shape + -less (without). Noun: shapelessness. Opposite: shapely (having a nice shape) or well-shaped.

In the corpora

• Galaxies come in main shapes: spirals like ours, round or oval ellipticals, and shapeless irregulars.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shapeless» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.