unshapen

[ uhn-shey-puhn ]

adjective

1. not shaped or definitely formed; shapeless; formless; indefinite.
2. not shapely; unpleasing in shape; ill-formed.
3. misshapen or deformed.

unshapen

/ ʌnˈʃeɪpən /

adjective

1. having no definite shape; shapeless
2. deformed; misshapen

Word History and Origins

Origin of unshapen¹

1300–50; Middle English; Old English unsceapen. See un- ¹, shape, -en ³

Example Sentences

It was rough and dank as the rest, a heavy unshapen paving-stone: yet he felt the power of it as if it spoke to him aloud.

From Literature

They passed on, Gollum in front and the hobbits now side by side, up the long ravine between the piers and columns of torn and weathered rock, standing like huge unshapen statues on either hand.

From Literature

Before they could reach the field the “stampede” had commenced, and the retreating hosts came like a rushing tide upon the advancing few, and carried them back, absorbed in the unshapen mass of confusion.

From Project Gutenberg

Comparing Cowley's and Crashaw's 'Hope,' Coleridge thus pronounces on them: 'Crashaw seems in his poems to have given the first ebullience of his imagination, unshapen into form, or much of what we now term sweetness.

From Project Gutenberg

And he forthwith mercifully healed him, and manifested that he is the true Creator, who opened the unshapen eye-rings with his salutary spittle.

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