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shapeless

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1. shapeless - Adjective

2. shapeless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. Italo Calvino

Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape. Pliny the Elder

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. Antonio Porchia

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond. Alberto Manguel

...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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