| 单词 | shapely |
| 释义 | shapely (once / 2427 pages) adj Use the adjective shapely to describe someone whose body has an attractive shape. You might start going to the gym to run and lift weights with the goal of becoming more shapely. The word shapely most often describes a woman, but there's no reason you can't use it to talk about a nicely shaped man as well. You could describe a mountain climber you know as being physically fit, with shapely legs, or complain that fashion magazines are full of identical shapely models, with no variation of body types. Shapely has been used in English since the fourteenth century, from the Old English root word gesceap, or "creation, form, or destiny." WORD FAMILYshapely: shapelier, shapeliest, shapeliness, unshapely+/reshape: reshaped, reshapes, reshaping/shape: ill-shapen, reshape, shaped, shapeless, shapely, shaper, shapes, shaping, unshapen/shaped: unshaped/shapeless: shapelessly, shapelessness/shaper: shapers/shaping: shapings USAGE EXAMPLESThe long bottles Sisi brought looked as though they contained an elegant liquid, the way they tapered like a slender, shapely woman. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) For a mandate that doesn’t fall apart with the first scandal or shapely ghost from your past, earn it with success on the growth front. Wall Street Journal(Nov 12, 2016) Toto Shapely toilets, bathtubs and plumbing fixtures by way of Japan. New York Times(Nov 10, 2016) adj having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape a slim waist and shapely legs Syn|Ant bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves callipygian, callipygouspertaining to or having finely developed buttocks clean-limbedhaving well-proportioned limbs full-fashioned, fully fashionedknitted to fit the shape of the body Junoesque, statuesquesuggestive of a statue modeled, sculptural, sculptured, sculpturesqueresembling sculpture retrousse, tip-tilted, upturned(used of noses) turned up at the end well-proportionedof pleasing proportions well-turnedof a pleasing shape unshapely not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape acromegalicmarked or affected by enlargement or hypertrophy of the extremities or the face chunky, lumpylike or containing small sticky lumps clubfooted, talipedhaving a deformed foot deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapenso badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly ill-proportionedlacking pleasing proportions knobbly, knobbyhaving knobs nodular, nodulated, noduledhaving nodules or occurring in the form of nodules nodulosehaving minute nodules chicken-breasted, pigeon-breastedhaving a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets shapelesslacking symmetry or attractive form toruloseof a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals asymmetric, asymmetricalcharacterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components |
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