unshapedadj.
Not reduced or moulded into shape; imperfectly formed; left rude or rough. Frequently figurative.
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the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [adjective] > unformed or not shaped
unformeda1340
unshapenc1350
unfashioned1538
unshaped1572
informed?1609
indigested1613
unmoulded1620
ineffigiate1657
unacted1700
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adjective] > not fully formed
unshapenc1350
wanec1485
unshaped1572
unmade1578
semi-formed1828
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie 11 A sleue, vnshaped, and vnsowed.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 8 Her speech is nothing, Yet the vnshaped vse of it doth moue The hearers to collection. View more context for this quotation
1683 P. Ayres Cupids Addr. sig. B2 See how the Bear industriously does frame, And bring in time to forme, her unshapt young.
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Mola Carnea A spungy unshaped Substance, without Bones or Bowels.
1798 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell 296 All the unshaped half-human thoughts Which solitary Nature feeds.
1849 R. Browning Poems (new ed.) 202 Shall to produce form out of unshaped stuff Be Art?
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. ii. 23 He spoke..with the Tuscan rusticity of accent, and an unshaped sort of utterance.
Derivatives
unˈshapedness n.
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the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [noun] > state of being unshaped
unshapeness1398
informity1583
unshapedness1587
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [noun] > state of not being moulded into shape
unshapeness1398
unshapedness1587
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. x. 166 A certeine vnshapednesse, which is the cause of all mishapennesse.
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