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English
Etymology
From Middle English schaply, schappely (“well-shaped, beautiful, attractive”), perhaps from Old English *ġesċeaplīċ (“according to design, proper, fit”) (suggested by Old English ġesċeaplīċe (“properly, fitting, well”)), equivalent to shape + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adjective
shapely (comparative shapelier or more shapely, superlative shapeliest or most shapely)
- Having a pleasing shape, pleasant to look at.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 , New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.
2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:It used to be, whenever Frank passed a rival butcher’s window (and later the curved glass of a supermarket meat counter), he would peer in unjealously, looking for the subtleties that spoke of talent with a knife. Were their fillets shapely?
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having a pleasing shape
- Arabic: حَسَن (ar) (ḥasan)
- Armenian: շեն (hy) (šen)
- Bulgarian: строен (bg) (stroen), добре сложен (dobre složen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 凹凸有致 (āotūyǒuzhì), 豐滿/丰满 (zh) (fēngmǎn)
- Czech: úhledný (cs), ladných tvarů
- Finnish: hyvinmuodostunut, sopusuhtainen (fi)
- Hungarian: jóalakú, jóformájú
- Irish: córach, cruthach, cruthúil, cumaí, cumtha, dea-chruthach, dea-chumtha, dealfa, fíortha, greanta
- Italian: formoso (it), tornito (it), prosperoso (it), polputo (it)
- Middle English: schaply
- Polish: zgrabny (pl), kształtny (pl)
- Portuguese: torneado
- Scottish Gaelic: cumachdail
- Spanish: torneado (es), curvilíneo, exuberante (es)
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