unshapen

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8

Definition of unshapen

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.
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adj

  1. Shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of unshape
  2. (rare)Synonym of unshape.
    “In determining this matter by instantaneous photography, the artist took the photograph of an omnibus wheel en route, and in this photograph, while the lower ends of the spokes immediately adjacent to the ground are not perceptibly unshapened by the motion, the tops of the upper spokes show an angular motion, corresponding to about ten degrees.”
    “In the gap of twenty years between girl and woman, what devastating life forces might have been at work, wiping bloom from cheek, dulling gleam from eves, distorting lips, smiting haggard lines on face, hardening or unshapening sweet and beloved contours, hardening, too, the mind, drying up the heart, arresting the development of the soul?”

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Etymology

Past participle of unshape.

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