Etymology
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shapeless (adj.)

c. 1300, from shape (n.) + -less. Related: Shapelessly; shapelessness.

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shape (n.)
Old English sceap, gesceap "form; created being, creature; creation; condition; sex, genitalia," from root of shape (v.)). Meaning "contours of the body" is attested from late 14c. Meaning "condition, state" is first recorded 1865, American English. In Middle English, the word in plural also had a sense of "a woman's private parts." Shape-shifter attested from 1820. Out of shape "not in proper shape" is from 1690s. Shapesmith "one who undertakes to improve the form of the body" was used in 1715.
-less 
word-forming element meaning "lacking, cannot be, does not," from Old English -leas, from leas "free (from), devoid (of), false, feigned," from Proto-Germanic *lausaz (cognates: Dutch -loos, German -los "-less," Old Norse lauss "loose, free, vacant, dissolute," Middle Dutch los, German los "loose, free," Gothic laus "empty, vain"), from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart." Related to loose and lease.
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Definitions of shapeless

shapeless (adj.)
having no definite form or distinct shape;
a shapeless mass of protoplasm
Synonyms: amorphous / formless
shapeless (adj.)
lacking symmetry or attractive form;
a shapeless hat on his head
From wordnet.princeton.edu

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