Shaped vs Shapedness - What's the difference?
shaped | shapedness |
(shape)
Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.
(in parasynthetic derivatives) The quality of being shaped in the specified manner.
* 1812 , July 19th: A. D. M. H. F. S. A.'', ''A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals, Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects , “A Description of Beasts”, Book I: “Of Quadrupeds, or Four-Footed Beasts”,
As a verb shaped
is (shape).As an adjective shaped
is having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.As a noun shapedness is
(in parasynthetic derivatives) the quality of being shaped in the specified manner.shaped
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The shaped sides of the wardrobe give it a more attractive appearance.
See also
* -shapedAnagrams
* *shapedness
English
Noun
(-)page 60, “The Elephant”
- The Elephant…[i]s reckoned the most intellectual animal in the creation after man. […] Nature, always impartial in the distribution of her gifts, has given this bulky quadruped a quick instinct nearly approaching to reason, in compensation for the uncouthness and ill-shapedness of his body.
