Shapely

Definition: Shapely

Shapely

Adjective

1. Having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape; "a slim waist and shapely legs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shapely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Shapely \Shape"ly\, adjective. [Comparative Shapelier; superlative Shapeliest.]. (references)

Beauty

Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly.

Symmetry

Adjective: symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished; beautiful; classic, chaste, severe.

Crosswords: Shapely

Just feast your eyes upon my face, observe my shapely nose (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick)

What a shame such a shapely sash should such shabby stitches show. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Shapely Places: Instances of Imaginative Geography (reference)

• Ship Shapely (reference)

• Ten Minute Trim Tummies & Shapely Fannies (reference)

• The Case of the Shapely Shadow (reference)

• A Shapely Fire: Changing the Literary Landscape (reference)

  (more book examples)

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He had loose redbrown hair and tender shapely strong freckled hands

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Ending with "shapely": still-shapely.

Albanian

turpderdhur (clean-limbed), me formë të hijshme. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متناسقة, ‏حسن الشكل, ‏جميلة (beauty, bonny, comely, stunner), ‏جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, comely, courtesy, dainty, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, handsome, kind act, lovely, magnificent, nice, pretty, sightly, sweet). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снажен, добре сложен (clean, clean-limbed, fine, upstanding, well knit, well-built, well-made, well-proportioned, well-set), добре оформен (neat, well turned). (various references)

Chinese 

匀称. (various references)

Czech

urostlý (burly, strapping, upstanding). (various references)

Farsi 

خوش ترکیب , خوش ریخت , خوش برورو, شکیل (Pretty). (various references)

Finnish

sirorakenteinen (neatly built, of graceful lines), kaunismuotoinen (well-shaped). (various references)

French

galbé, bien proportionné, bien galbé, bien fait, belle, beau. (various references)

German

wohlproportioniert (well-proportioned), wohlgestalt (comeliness, well-proportioned, well-shaped), wohlgeformt (shapelily), kurvenreich (bendy, curvaceous, serpentine, winding), formschön (elegant). (various references)

Greek 

καλοφτιαγμένοσ (neat), συμμετρικόσ (regular, symmetric, symmetrical), εύμορφοσ (bonny, good looking, pretty, pulchritudinous, sightly, well favored). (various references)

Hebrew 

חטוב (carved, carving, cut, sculpture). (various references)

Hungarian

formás (neat). (various references)

Indonesian

botoh (croupier). (various references)

Italian

proporzionato (equable, proportionate, steady), formoso, ben fatto (neat, personable, workmanlike), armonioso (clean, concordant, consonant, euphonious, harmonious, neat, tuneful), aggraziato (graceful, pretty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

端整 (graceful), すすり泣く (all, all of a sudden, bitch, briskly, broke, clear, completely, directly, do something completely, erect, even, face with no make-up, gently, men's underwear, neat, nimble, ought to do, penniless, quick, quickly, quietly, should do, sleeping soundly, smart, smooth to the touch, smoothly, softly, straight, thoroughly, to leaveundone, to make refreshed, to make relieved, to neglect, to sob, to standup, upright, utterly stark naked, wearing only one's birthday suit), 宛転たる (moving smoothly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

た�"せい (cultivation, diligence, effort, graceful, handsome, noble, pains, painting, red and blue, sigh, sincerity, training, unisexual, working earnestly), すっきり (clear, neat), え�"て�"たる (moving smoothly, orotund, smoothly rolling, spherical). (various references)

Korean 

맵시 있�". (various references)

Manx

stoamey (curvaceous, dashing, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, large-breasted, personable, well-formed, well-formed person, well-proportioned), stoamagh (gorgeous, stately, superb, well-proportioned). (various references)

Pig Latin

apelyshay.(various references)

Portuguese

simétrico (regular, spheral, symmetric, symmetrical), bem talhado, bem proporcionado (classic, classical, clean-limbed), bem modelado, bem feito (well-done, workmanlike). (various references)

Romanian

simetric (equable, formal, symmetric, symmetrical, symmetrically), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), bine proporţionat (clean). (various references)

Russian 

стройный (clean-limbed, gent, harmonic, jimp, slender, svelte, willowy). (various references)

Scottish

grinn (neat, pretty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stasit (tall), srazmeran (commensurable, commensurate, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, rateable), lepog oblika (well turned). (various references)

Spanish

bien formado. (various references)

Swedish

välväxt (set up, upstanding), välskapad (well-made). (various references)

Turkish

yakışıklı (comely, good looking, handsome, personable, sightly, smart, stunner, well favored, well-favoured), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome), düzgün (clear-cut, Dandy, dandyish, fluent, formal, in good trim, ordered, regular, right, shipshape, slick, smooth, Spruce, Square, straight, trim, unruffled), biçimli (beautiful, clean-cut, clear-cut, figurate, shaped, sleek, trim, well-cut, well-proportioned, well-shaped), şekilli. (various references)

Ukrainian

стрункий (gimp, jimp, neat, svelte, well knit, well turned), пропорційний (balanced, clean-limbed, commensurable, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, proportioned, ratable, rateable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có hình dáng đẹp; có hình dáng cân đối. (various references)

Welsh

lluniaidd, addfain (slender). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "shapely": unshapely. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shapely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Khaleeli, sapele, sapey, Sapley, shacel, shakenly, Shakerley, Shamela, Shapley, sharpley, shebeli, Shepkey, Shepsle, shipley, shply, Stapeley. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alephs, phylae, plashy, shaley.

-2 letters: aleph, ephas, hales, haply, heals, heaps, helps, hylas, hypes, lapse, leaps, leash, lyase, pales, palsy, peals, phase, phyla, phyle, plash, plays, pleas, salep, selah, sepal, shale, shaly, shape, sheal, shlep, slype, spale, splay, sylph, yelps.

-3 letters: ales, alps, apes, apse, ashy, ayes, easy, epha, espy, eyas, haes, hale.

+2 letters: aphyllies, blasphemy, haplessly, horseplay, playhouse, polyphase, synalepha, unshapely.

+3 letters: apophyseal, cheapishly, diaphyseal, epiphyseal, epiphysial, halophytes, haplotypes, horseplays, hypallages, hyperbolas, phylaxises, phyllaries, playhouses, sleepyhead, symphyseal, synalephas, synaloepha.

+4 letters: anaphylaxes, geophysical, horseplayer, hydroplanes, hyperplanes, hyperplasia, hypersaline, hypersexual, hypophyseal, methyldopas, misshapenly, phalanstery, phraseology, phyllotaxes, phylloxeras, platyfishes, polychaetes, polymathies, polyphagies, prophylaxes, psychedelia, shapelessly, sleepyheads, spherically, synaloephas.

+5 letters: apophyllites, horseplayers, hyperarousal, hyperplasias, hyperplastic, hyperrealism, hyperrealist, hypokalemias, imperishably, lycanthropes, metaphysical, myelopathies, paraldehydes, phylacteries, phylloclades, phyllotaxies, physicalness, phytoalexins, platyrrhines, polyanthuses, polygraphers, psychedelias, psychobabble, psychosexual, sepulchrally, seraphically, spheroidally, superhumanly, thallophytes, xylographers, xylographies.