shapeless
adjEtymology Inherited from Middle English schaples. By surface analysis, shape + -less.
1
Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.
- If you skip the prelude, which is at once rhythmically square and shapeless, this Lohengrin starts out decently enough, for Hans Helm is one of the okayest Heralds on disc (a modest compliment, to be sure).1976, Records in Review, page 407:
- Derived terms
- shapelessly, shapelessness