Shape

//ʃeɪp//

Synonyms for "shape" (461 found)

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Strong matches (138)

contrive control correct correspond create creation cut cut out decree define denomination departed spirit description design designation develop devise differentia differential discipline

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Verb(3 words)

determine forge influence

Noun(6 words)

embodiment figure flesh frame gestalt human body

Related words (230)

lay out lay plans layout lemures lick into shape light likeness line lineaments lines look lot machine make make a projection make arrangements make conform make up makeup making

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manes manner mannerism manufacture mark marking masan materialization materialize matrix mature meet methodize mint mirage modality mode model modify mold molding mould moulder mouldy nature number observe odor oni order organic structure organism organization organize originate outline particularity patch together pattern patterning peculiarity person persuasion phantasm phantasma phantasmagoria phantom phase phasis phasm phenomenon phylum physique piece together plan plan ahead platonic form platonic idea poltergeist pot prearrange prefabricate prepare presence proceed produce production profile program progress project property proportion prototype put put together put up quality quirk race raise rationalize rear reconcile rectify reference regard regulate remodel repair respect revenant rough out roughcast roughhew rub off corners run up savor schedule schematize school sculpt sculpture seal seeming semblance set set up settle setup shade shadow shape up shaping show improvement shrouded spirit side significant form silhouette simulacrum singularity slant smack sort specialty species specter spectral ghost spirit spook sprite stamp state status straighten strain stripe structure structuring style suit suppose supreme headquarters allied powers europe systematize tailor taint take form take shape tally tally with tang taste tectonics tenor terrain texture the like of the likes of theophany thermoform think up throw tissue token tone tool total effect train trait tribe trick trim turn turn a pot twist type unsubstantiality variety view viewpoint vision waking dream walking dead man wandering soul warp and woof way weave web whack whomp up wildest dream wise word work work out work up wraith write yield zombie

Noun(6 words)

material body pattern physical body physique soma supreme headquarters allied powers europe

Verb(4 words)

mould regulate shapen work

Related word relations

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11 relation types

More general

22 entries

alter appearance attribute body cause change concrete representation concretism create from raw material create from raw stuff do good health healthiness high command make modify

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More specific

23 entries

circle cone conic section contest shape cube cuboid cylinder ellipse fractal oval parallelogram physique polygon polyhedron prism pyramid

Showing 16 of 23 words.

Antonyms

1 entries

formless

Synonyms

5 entries

condition determine form human body supreme headquarters allied powers europe

Related terms

1 entries

:Category:Shapes

derived

71 entries

T-shape bandshape bash into shape beat into shape beshape blendshape body shape cut up shapes day shape deshape eigenshape eyeshape foreshape forshape get bent out of shape get into shape

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has context

5 entries

cookery iron manufacture northern england programming scotland

is a

5 entries

attribute concretism geometric figure magazine spatial property

manner of

1 entries

create from raw material

related to

63 entries

appearance art attribute blancmange circle circle square circles circles squares condition contour contours corners create data data type definition

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similar

3 entries

process work work on

Translations

264 translations across 87 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

formë noun (appearance or outline)

Amharic

1 entries

ቅርጽ noun (appearance or outline)

Ancient Greek

4 entries

μορφή noun (appearance or outline)
σχῆμα noun (appearance or outline)
μορφόω verb (to give something a [[shape]])
πλάσσω verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Arabic

3 entries

أَشْكَال noun (appearance or outline)
شَكْل noun (appearance or outline)
صُورَة noun (appearance or outline)

Armenian

3 entries

ձեւ noun (appearance or outline)
վիճակ noun (status or condition)
վիճակ noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

forma noun (appearance or outline)
şəkil noun (appearance or outline)

Belarusian

1 entries

фо́рма noun (appearance or outline)

Bengali

4 entries

আকার noun (appearance or outline)
আকৃতি noun (appearance or outline)
রূপ noun (appearance or outline)
সুরত noun (appearance or outline)

Bulgarian

4 entries

вид noun (appearance or outline)
положе́ние noun (status or condition)
състоя́ние noun (status or condition)
фо́рма noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)

Burmese

1 entries

ပုံ noun (appearance or outline)

Catalan

2 entries

forma noun (appearance or outline)
formar verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries

形式 noun (appearance or outline)
形狀 /形状 noun (appearance or outline)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

形式 noun (appearance or outline)
形狀 /形状 noun (appearance or outline)
樣子 /样子 noun (status or condition)
使成形 verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Czech

4 entries

forma noun (status or condition)
forma noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
stav noun (status or condition)
tvar noun (appearance or outline)

Danish

4 entries

form noun (status or condition)
form noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
form noun (appearance or outline)
tilstand noun (status or condition)

Dari

1 entries

شَکْل noun (appearance or outline)

Dutch

4 entries

conditie noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
fysiek noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
staat noun (status or condition)
status noun (status or condition)

Esperanto

2 entries

formo noun (form; formation)
formi verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Estonian

2 entries

kuju noun (appearance or outline)
vorm noun (appearance or outline)

Faroese

1 entries

skap noun (appearance or outline)

Finnish

4 entries

aihio noun (iron manufacture: rolled or hammered piece having a cross section different from merchant bar)
aihio noun (iron manufacture: piece which has been roughly forged nearly to its final form)
kunto noun (status or condition)
kunto noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)

French

4 entries

forme noun (status or condition)
forme noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
forme noun (appearance or outline)
donner une forme verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Galician

1 entries

forma noun (appearance or outline)

Georgian

4 entries

აგებულება noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
აღნაგობა noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
მდგომარეობა noun (status or condition)
მოყვანილობა noun (appearance or outline)

German

4 entries

Form noun (status or condition)
Form noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
Form noun (appearance or outline)
Gestalt noun (appearance or outline)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌳𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Greek

1 entries

μορφή noun (appearance or outline)

Hebrew

3 entries

מַצָּב noun (status or condition)
צוּרָה noun (appearance or outline)
עיצב verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Hindi

4 entries

आकार noun (appearance or outline)
डोल noun (appearance or outline)
रूप noun (appearance or outline)
शक्ल noun (appearance or outline)

Hungarian

2 entries

alak noun (appearance or outline)
forma noun (appearance or outline)

Icelandic

1 entries

form noun (appearance or outline)

Ido

1 entries

formacar verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Indonesian

1 entries

bentuk noun (appearance or outline)

Ingrian

1 entries

kaanu noun (appearance or outline)

Iranian Persian

4 entries

شَکْل noun (appearance or outline)
شِکْل noun (appearance or outline)
صورَت noun (appearance or outline)
فُرْم noun (appearance or outline)

Irish

2 entries

cruth noun (appearance or outline)
cum verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Italian

4 entries

condizione noun (status or condition)
forma noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
forma noun (appearance or outline)
sagoma noun (appearance or outline)

Japanese

4 entries

ようす noun (status or condition)
型 noun (appearance or outline)
形 noun (appearance or outline)
形式 noun (appearance or outline)

Javanese

4 entries

dhapur noun (appearance or outline)
kaanan noun (status or condition)
rupa noun (appearance or outline)
wangun noun (appearance or outline)

Kalmyk

1 entries

кев noun (appearance or outline)

Kazakh

4 entries

нысан noun (appearance or outline)
пішім noun (appearance or outline)
пішін noun (appearance or outline)
форма noun (appearance or outline)

Khmer

2 entries

គ្រោង noun (appearance or outline)
ទម្រង់ noun (appearance or outline)

Korean

3 entries

모양 noun (appearance or outline)
형 noun (appearance or outline)
형식 noun (appearance or outline)

Kven

1 entries

haamu noun (appearance or outline)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

кеп noun (appearance or outline)
форма noun (appearance or outline)

Lao

4 entries

ຊົງ noun (appearance or outline)
ຮູບ noun (appearance or outline)
ຮູບຮ່າງ noun (appearance or outline)
ຮ່າງ noun (appearance or outline)

Latin

4 entries

figūra noun (status or condition)
figūra noun (appearance or outline)
fōrma noun (status or condition)
fōrma noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)

Latvian

1 entries

forma noun (appearance or outline)

Lithuanian

1 entries

forma noun (appearance or outline)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

formowaś verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Luhya

1 entries

liumbo noun (appearance or outline)

Macedonian

1 entries

облик noun (appearance or outline)

Malay

1 entries

bentuk noun (appearance or outline)

Mongolian

2 entries

хэлбэр noun (appearance or outline)
ᠬᠡᠯᠪᠡᠷᠢ noun (appearance or outline)

Māori

1 entries

āhuahanga noun (appearance or outline)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

şikil noun (appearance or outline)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

form noun (appearance or outline)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

شكل noun (appearance or outline)

Pashto

1 entries

شکل noun (appearance or outline)

Polish

4 entries

forma noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
forma noun (appearance or outline)
kondycja noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
kształt noun (status or condition)

Portuguese

4 entries

condição noun (status or condition)
estado noun (status or condition)
estado noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
forma noun (appearance or outline)

Romanian

4 entries

formă noun (status or condition)
formă noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
formă noun (appearance or outline)
stare noun (status or condition)

Russian

4 entries

положе́ние noun (status or condition)
состоя́ние noun (status or condition)
фо́рма noun (status or condition)
фо́рма noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)

Sanskrit

1 entries

रूप noun (appearance or outline)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

cor noun (status or condition)
cor noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
cruth noun (appearance or outline)
cumadh noun (appearance or outline)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

ȍblīk noun (appearance or outline)
о̏блӣк noun (appearance or outline)

Slovak

1 entries

tvar noun (appearance or outline)

Slovene

2 entries

oblika noun (appearance or outline)
oblikovati verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Spanish

4 entries

estado noun (status or condition)
figura noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
forma noun (status or condition)
forma noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)

Swahili

1 entries

umbo noun (appearance or outline)

Swedish

4 entries

form noun (status or condition)
form noun (appearance or outline)
tillstånd noun (status or condition)
forma verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Tagalog

1 entries

hugis noun (appearance or outline)

Tajik

2 entries

сурат noun (appearance or outline)
шакл noun (appearance or outline)

Telugu

4 entries

ఆకారం noun (appearance or outline)
ఆకృతి noun (appearance or outline)
స్థితి noun (status or condition)
రూపుదిద్దు verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Thai

2 entries

รูป noun (appearance or outline)
รูปร่าง noun (appearance or outline)

Tibetan

1 entries

དབྱིབས noun (appearance or outline)

Tigrinya

2 entries

ቅርጺ noun (appearance or outline)
ቅርፂ noun (appearance or outline)

Tocharian B

2 entries

ersna noun (appearance or outline)
tsik verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Turkish

4 entries

durum noun (status or condition)
form noun (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)
görünüş noun (appearance or outline)
vaziyet noun (status or condition)

Turkmen

3 entries

forma noun (appearance or outline)
görnüş noun (appearance or outline)
şekil noun (appearance or outline)

Ukrainian

4 entries

ви́гляд noun (appearance or outline)
кшталт noun (appearance or outline)
фо́рма noun (appearance or outline)
сформува́ти verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Urdu

4 entries

آکار noun (appearance or outline)
رُوپ noun (appearance or outline)
شَکْل noun (appearance or outline)
ڈول noun (appearance or outline)

Uyghur

1 entries

شەكىل noun (appearance or outline)

Uzbek

2 entries

forma noun (appearance or outline)
shakl noun (appearance or outline)

Vietnamese

3 entries

hình noun (appearance or outline)
hình dáng noun (appearance or outline)
hình thức noun (appearance or outline)

Welsh

4 entries

cyflwr noun (status or condition)
ffurf noun (form; formation)
siâp noun (appearance or outline)
llunio verb (to give something a [[shape]])

Yiddish

1 entries

פֿאָרעם noun (appearance or outline)

Sample sentences

30 total sentences available.

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You're in better shape than I am.

Source: tatoeba (1295)

If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.

Source: tatoeba (1319)

Pull into shape after washing.

Source: tatoeba (1573)

Your watch is similar to mine in shape and color.

Source: tatoeba (17105)

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Shape

Synonyms for "shape" (461 found)

Closest matches (93)

Strong matches (138)

Related words (230)

Related word relations

More general

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Antonyms

Synonyms

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derived

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is a

manner of

related to

similar

Translations

Albanian

Amharic

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Armenian

Azerbaijani

Belarusian

Bengali

Bulgarian

Burmese

Catalan

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Czech

Danish

Dari

Dutch

Esperanto

Estonian

Faroese

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Gothic

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Ido

Indonesian

Ingrian

Iranian Persian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Javanese

Kalmyk

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Kven

Kyrgyz

Lao

Latin

Latvian

Lithuanian

Lower Sorbian

Luhya

Macedonian

Malay

Mongolian

Māori

Northern Kurdish

Norwegian Bokmål

Ottoman Turkish

Pashto

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian