Shapeless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shapeless \Shape"less\, a.
     Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of
     dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to {shapely}. --
     {Shape"less*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. --Pope.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shapeless
       adj 1: having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds
              of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a
              shapeless mass of protoplasm" [syn: {amorphous}, {formless}]
       2: lacking symmetry or attractive form; "a shapeless hat on his
          head"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  206 Moby Thesaurus words for "shapeless":
     aberrant, abnormal, adrift, afloat, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory,
     alternating, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, anomalistic, anomalous,
     baggy, battered, bent, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad,
     cacogenic, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, changeable,
     changeful, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, confused,
     dark, deformed, desultory, deviable, deviative, different, dim,
     disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disorderly,
     dispersed, disproportionate, distorted, divergent, dizzy,
     eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, featureless, fickle, fitful,
     flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy, formless,
     freakish, frivolous, fuzzy, gargoylish, general, giddy, gratuitous,
     grotesque, haphazard, hazy, heteroclite, heteromorphic,
     hit-or-miss, ill-defined, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped,
     immethodical, impetuous, imprecise, impulsive, inaccurate,
     inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
     indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
     indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, infirm, inform, irregular,
     irresolute, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen,
     malformed, mazy, meaningless, mercurial, misbegotten,
     misproportioned, misshapen, misty, monstrous, moody, muddy, murky,
     nebulous, nondescript, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic,
     nonuniform, obscure, opaque, orderless, planless, promiscuous,
     rambling, random, restless, roving, scatterbrained, senseless,
     shadowed forth, shadowy, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spasmodic,
     spineless, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray,
     straying, subnormal, sweeping, systemless, teratic, transcendent,
     twisted, unaccountable, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified,
     unclear, uncontrolled, undefined, undependable, undestined,
     undetermined, undirected, undisciplined, unfixed, unformed,
     ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unnatural, unordered,
     unorganized, unplain, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained,
     unsettled, unshaped, unshapely, unsorted, unspecified, unstable,
     unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsymmetrical,
     unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable,
     veiled, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering,
     wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy