Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shapeless
IPA transcription: [ʃ'eɪpləs]
Pronunciations of shapeless
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: amorphous, formless, shapeless
    Meaning: having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm"
Usage examples
  • One of them was a mere shapeless rag hanging by a thread.
  • It is hardly more than a shapeless scaffolding, run up anyhow.
  • Dan, a mild-faced, baldish figure in a shapeless military surgeon's uniform, was ringing the bell.
  • She took them up and examined them curiously one by one. Finally she selected a shapeless slate-colored block from the mass.
  • I think just how my lips will weigh With shapeless, quivering prayer That you, so late, consider me, The sparrow of your care.
  • Men uncouthly clothed in shapeless, shiny leather garments, straddled and stretched above him, filling their lungs with the sweet air.
  • "Our home, sir," said Colonel Blaylock, removing his wide-brimmed, rather shapeless black felt hat, "is in Holly Springs--Holly Springs, Georgia.
  • Shapeless as he might appear on his horse that was Colonel Winchester, and there were the broad shoulders of Sergeant Whitley and the figures of the others.
  • Chris must have dozed, for when he came to himself the light had changed, and men were carrying a shapeless bundle wrapped in canvas to a grave dug in the sand.
  • Here is a plant (whose chief weakness already lies in a certain over-stiffness) made stiffer and more shapeless still by dwarfing and by cramming with too many petals.
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