Synonyms for Shape:

n.
- come into play
- make a difference
- put
- take effect
- component
- facet
- factor
- feature
- peculiarity
- property
- quality
- apex
- back
- base
- bevel
- bottom
- brim
- bump
- confines
- corner
- surface
- fitness
- proportions
- as is
• appearance
- air
- aspect
- bearing
- countenance
- demeanor
- display
- image
- look
- mien
- show
- spectacle
- view
- vista
• attribute
- conformation
- shape
• cast
- re plica
- re-plica
• character
- Crasis
- humor
• chassis
- chassis
• condition
- ballgame
- how it goes
- how things are
- how things stack up
- like it is
- predicament
- predicaments
- riff
- riffs
- situations
- size of it
- state of affairs
- way things are
- way things shape up
- where it's at
• condition, health
- case
- order
- repair
• configuration
- gestalten
• construction
- erectings
- fabricatings
- pre fabrication
- pre fabrications
- pre-fabrication
- pre-fabrications
- prefabrications
- putting ups
- rearings
• contour
- de lineation
- de lineations
- de-lineation
- de-lineations
- re lief
- re-lief
• curvature
- Curvity
- deflection
- deflections
- flexure
- flexures
- incurvation
• design
- de sign
- de signs
- de-sign
- de-signs
• embodiment
- embodiment
• fashion
- Cultus
- bandwagon
- bandwagons
- cultism
- faddism
- in thing
- latest
- newest wrinkle
• fettle
- emotional states
- sound conditions
- state mind
• fitness
- robustness
• flesh
- flesh
• form
- features
• form, structure
- LINEs
- architecture
- circumscription
- constitution
- likeness
- metamorphosis
- semblance
- simulacrum
- stamp
- symmetry
• format
- formula
• frame of mind
- inner nature
- temporary psychological state
• group
- Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
• guise
- dis guise
- dis guises
- dis-guise
- dis-guises
- false shows
• health
- Eupepsia
- clean bill
- fine feather
- fine feathers
- good condition
- hardiness
- healthfulness
- lustiness
- pink
- salubriousness
- salubrity
- tonicity
- top form
- wellbeing
• human body
- human body
• material body
- material body
• physical fitness
- aerobic fitness
- cardiovascular fitness
- co-ordination
- coordination
- coordinations
- physical conditioning
• shape
- physical body
- regulate
- soma
• structure
- skeleton
v.
• adapt
- came around
- comes around
- coming around
- gat act together
- gets act together
- getting act together
- got act together
- gotten act together
- grew used to
- growing used to
- grows used to
- play game
- played game
- played the game
- playing game
- plays game
- plays the game
- pre pare
- pre pared
- pre pares
- pre paring
- pre-pare
- pre-pared
- pre-pares
- pre-paring
- re adjust
- re adjusted
- re adjusting
- re adjusts
- re model
- re modeled
- re modelled
- re modelling
- re models
- re vise
- re vised
- re vising
- re-adjusted
- re-adjusting
- re-adjusts
- re-model
- re-modeled
- re-modeling
- re-modelled
- re-modelling
- re-models
- re-vise
- re-vised
- re-vising
- rolled with punches
- shaped up
- shapes up
- shaping up
• arch
- Arcked
- Arcking
- ex tend
- ex tended
- ex tending
- ex tends
- ex-tend
- ex-tended
- ex-tending
- ex-tends
• assemble
- pieces together
- pro duce
- pro duces
- pro-duce
- pro-duces
• beat
- Malleated
- Malleating
- malleates
• bend
- changed mind
- changes mind
- changing mind
- sub due
- sub dues
- sub-due
- sub-dues
• carve
- dis sever
- dis severed
- dis severing
- dis severs
- dis-sever
- dis-severed
- dis-severing
- dis-severs
- in dent
- in dented
- in denting
- in dents
- in sculpt
- in sculpted
- in sculpting
- in sculpts
- in-dent
- in-dented
- in-denting
- in-dents
- in-sculpt
- in-sculpted
- in-sculpting
- in-sculpts
- insculpted
- insculpting
- insculpts
- rough hew
- rough hewed
- rough hewing
- rough hewn
- rough hews
- rough-hewed
- rough-hewing
- rough-hews
- roughhewed
- roughhewing
- roughhews
• chart
- de lineate
- de lineated
- de signed
- de signing
- de-lineate
- de-lineated
- de-signed
- de-signing
- lays out
- out lined
- out lining
- out-lined
- out-lining
• chip
- cracked off
- cracking off
- cracks off
- cuts away
• chisel
- roughcasts
• construct
- cobbled up
- cobbles up
- cobbling up
- fudged together
- fudges together
- fudging together
- hoked up
- hokes up
- hoking up
- in vent
- in vented
- in venting
- in vents
- in-vent
- in-vented
- in-venting
- in-vents
- pre fab
- prefabbed
- prefabbing
- threw together
- throwing together
- throws together
- trumping up
- trumps up
• create
- be getting
- be gotten
- be-getting
- be-gotten
- bring in to being
- bring in to existence
- bring pass
- bringing in to being
- bringing in to existence
- bringing into being
- bringing into existence
- brings in to being
- brings in to existence
- brings into being
- brings into existence
- brought in to being
- brought in to existence
- cause be
- caused be
- caused to be
- causes be
- causes to be
- causing be
- causing to be
- dis cover
- dis covered
- dis covering
- dis covers
- dis-cover
- dis-covered
- dis-covering
- dis-covers
- gave life to
- gives life to
- giving birth to
- giving life to
- in vest
- in vested
- in vests
- in-vest
- in-vested
- in-vesting
- in-vests
- pro create
- pro created
- pro creates
- pro creating
- pro-create
- pro-created
- pro-creates
- pro-creating
• determine
- de limit
- de limited
- de limiting
- de limits
- de-limit
- de-limited
- de-limiting
- de-limits
- in cline
- in clines
- in duce
- in duces
- in-cline
- in-clines
- in-duce
- in-duces
- marks off
• devise
- de vise
- de vised
- de vising
- de-vise
- de-vised
- de-vising
- doped out
- dopes out
- doping out
- faked it
- fakes it
- faking it
- headed trip
- heading trip
- heads trip
- thinking up
- thinks up
• draft
- skeletoned
- skeletoning
• edge
- sur rounded
- sur rounding
- sur-rounded
- sur-rounding
• erect
- fits together
- knocking together
- knocks together
- pre fabricate
- pre fabricated
- pre fabricates
- pre fabricating
- pre-fabricate
- pre-fabricated
- pre-fabricates
- pre-fabricating
- prefabricates
- prefabricating
- ran up
- running up
- stands up
• fabricate
- whomped up
- whomping up
- whomps up
• file
- re fine
- re fined
- re fines
- re-fine
- re-fines
- re-fining
• fit
- dis pose
- dis posed
- dis posing
- dis-pose
- dis-posed
- dis-posing
- tailor made
- tailor make
- tailor makes
- tailor making
- tailor-makes
- tailor-making
- tailormake
- tailormakes
- tailormaking
• form, create
- pat
- streamline
• frame
- in dite
- in dites
- in-dite
- in-dites
- mapped out
- maps out
• hammer
- de feat
- de feats
- de-feat
- de-feats
- whomped
• influence
- act up on
- acted up on
- acting up on
- acting upon
- acts up on
- acts upon
- am recognized
- are recognized
- argue in to
- argued in to
- argued into
- argues in to
- argues into
- art recognized
- being recognized
- bring bear
- had a part in
- had part in
- haddest a part in
- haddest part in
- hadst a part in
- hadst part in
- has a part in
- has part in
- hast a part in
- hast part in
- hath a part in
- hath part in
- have part in
- having a part in
- having part in
- impacted on
- impacting on
- impacts on
- in cite
- in cites
- in-cite
- in-cited
- is recognized
- pre dispose
- pre disposes
- pre disposing
- pre vail
- pre vailed
- pre vailing
- pre vails
- pre-dispose
- pre-disposed
- pre-disposes
- pre-disposing
- pre-vail
- pre-vailed
- pre-vails
- pulled strings
- pulling strings
- pulls strings
- talk in to
- talked in to
- talked into
- talking in to
- talking into
- talks in to
- talks into
- was recognized
- wast recognized
- were recognized
- wert recognized
- work up on
- worked up on
- working up on
- working upon
- works up on
- works upon
- wrought up on
• make
- co oked
- co oking
- co-oked
- co-oking
- dashes off
- dashing off
- gat ready
- gets ready
- gotten ready
- tare off
- tears off
- tore off
- torn off
- whipped out
- whipping out
- whips out
- whipt out
• manipulate
- be guile
- be guiles
- be-guile
- be-guiles
- played games
- plays games
- pulled wires
- pulling wires
- pulls wires
- pushed around
- pushes around
- up stage
- up staged
- up stages
- up staging
- up-stage
- up-staged
- up-stages
- up-staging
• manufacture
- mass produced
- mass produces
- mass producing
- mass-produces
- mass-producing
- massproduce
- massproduced
- massproduces
- massproducing
- pro cess
- pro cessed
- pro cessing
- pro-cess
- pro-cessed
- pro-cesses
- pro-cessing
• order
- array
- categorize
- class
- classify
- collate
- integrate
- maintain
- mediate
- normalize
- orchestrate
- pigeonhole
- rate
- right
- score
- screen
- separate
- sift
- stabilize
- stratify
- subordinate
- support
- unsnarl
Other synonyms:

•

stand

•

open up

•

HIT
bloom
give
loop

•

blow
get

•

level
solid

•

state

Other relevant words:

• bend

change mind

• change

• contour

contour
silhouette

• create

Initiating
Instituting
Sired
Siring
Spawned
authored
authoring
bring into being
bring into existence
brought into being
brought into existence
cause to be
gave birth to
give birth to
give life to
gives birth to
initiate
parented
parenting

• curve

arch

• distorted

• edge

• horizon

skyline

• influence

• plan

• prepare

train

• round

• sculpture

• tailor

• whittle

• Other relevant words (adjective):

characteristic
vision

• Other relevant words (noun):

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

What are the paraphrases for Shape?

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Equivalence
- Proper noun, singular
  shaping.
- Noun, singular or mass
  shaping.
Forward Entailment
- Noun, singular or mass
  appearance.
Independent
- Proper noun, singular
  manifestations.
- Noun, singular or mass
  fashion, guise, morphology, pattern, posture, silhouette, structure, Capita, cheers, structuring.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  affect, constitute, determine, determining.
- Verb, base form
  affect, articulate, constitute, construct, craft, determine, determining, developed, developing, devise, fashion, forge, formulate, guide, lay, structure, tailor, Establishing, configures.
Other Related
- Adjective
  shaped.
- Proper noun, singular
  form, shaped, Forms.
- Noun, singular or mass
  design, form.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  form.
- Verb, base form
  design, designing, form, reshape.

What are the hypernyms for Shape?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for shape (as nouns)
- attribute
  concaveness, keenness, curvature, sharpness, convexness, roundness, convexity, straightness, topography, bluntness, concavity, crookedness, lobularity, angularity, narrowing, dullness, curve, stratification.
- tops
  distortion, square, sheet, line, figure, tower, connexion, natural shape, circle, triangle, plane, angular shape, column, solid, angularity, plume, distorted shape, connection, link, pillar, flair, amorphous shape, flare, round shape.
hypernyms for shape (as verbs)
- change
  crystallise, circle, individuate, crystalize, dimension, flatten, fit, round off, blow, fork, crystalise, encircle, scallop, roll, plume, scollop, distort, ridge, draw, terrace, dish, tabulate, deform, square, square up, turn, strike, block, tie, sliver, round, round out, twist, cup, crystallize, strain.
- cognition
  miscreate, index, pace, indispose, incline, carry weight, predetermine, reshape, dispose, disincline, decide, time.
- creation
  coil, model, hill, roughcast, cast, carve, hand-build, puddle, handbuild, reshape, preform, stamp, grind, cut out, swage, layer, chip, machine, sculpt, sinter, remold, sculpture, throw, mound, beat, mold, mould, upset.

What are the hyponyms for Shape?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for shape (as nouns)
- attribute
  spatiality, spatial property.
- group
  supreme headquarters, high command.
- tops
  attribute.
hyponyms for shape (as verbs)
- change
  change, modify, alter.
- cognition
  make, DO, cause.
- creation
  create from raw stuff, create from raw material.

What are the holonyms for Shape?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

holonyms for shape (as nouns)
- group
  North Atlantic Treaty organization, nato.

What are the opposite words for shape?

Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings, and for the word "shape" there are several options. One antonym for "shape" is "formlessness" which suggests that something has no defined shape or structure. Another antonym is "disfigurement," suggesting that something has been distorted or marred from its original form. "Misshapen" is another antonym meaning something is not symmetrical or deformed. Lastly, "unformed" can also be an antonym meaning something has not yet taken shape or form. Knowing antonyms can help to better understand the nuances of language and expand one's vocabulary.

What are the antonyms for Shape?

n.
• form, structure
- difference
- reality
• noun
- composition
- disrepair
- material
- matter
- raw material
- stuff
- substance
v.
• devise, plan
- disorganize
- stop
• form, create
- deform
- demolish
- destroy
- dismantle
- lose
- neglect
- raze
- ruin
• noun
- Unbuild
- abolish
- annihilate
- black out
- cancel
- decimate
- devastate
- eradicate
- erase
- expunge
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extirpate
- liquidate
- nuke
- obliterate
- pull down
- pulverize
- shatter
- vaporize
- wrack
Other relevant words:

affection
trouble

Usage examples for Shape

You have not heard His voice nor seen His shape, but His word, His own sufficient account of His nature and connection with you, you have.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"

Marcus Dods

And more than ever it seemed to Jane Oglander as if another man, a stranger, had taken possession of Hew Lingard's shape.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Nevertheless, a plan had taken shape in her busy mind, which she determined to discuss with her father and mother.

"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"

Pauline Lester

Famous quotes with Shape

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Floyd Abrams
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Addison
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

George Ade
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

Herb Alpert

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Synonyms for Shape:

n.

v.

Other synonyms:

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