undershapenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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undershapen (comparative more undershapen, superlative most undershapen)

1. (poetic, nonce word) Under the usual size; dwarfish; small.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 22–23:

     His dwarf, a vicious under-shapen thing, / Struck at her with his whip, and she return'd / Indignant to the Queen; […]

Further reading

• “undershapen”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “undershapen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• unsharpened