Unshapen
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 past participle of unshape form-of, participle, past
- 2 Synonym of unshape. rare
"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."
- 1 Shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.
- 1 incompletely or imperfectly shaped wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Past participle of unshape.
From un- + shapen.
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