unshapen

1. 1.

   incompletely or imperfectly shaped

   “unshaped dough”

   “unshaped timbers”

   Synonymsunshaped

   Similarunformed

Questions about unshapen

What does unshapen mean?

unshapen means "incompletely or imperfectly shaped".

How many syllables are in unshapen?

unshapen has 3 syllables: un-sha-pen. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for unshapen?

Close synonyms include unshaped. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unshapen a common word?

unshapen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.