shapely

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: shape=ly

CIDE DICTIONARY

shapely, a. 

•  Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.  T. Warton.  [1913 Webster]

  "Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn,
  The spiry fir and shapely box adorn."  [1913 Webster]

  "Where the shapely column stood."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fit; suitable.  [1913 Webster]

  "Shaply for to be an alderman."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

shapely, adj. (shapelier, shapeliest)
1 well formed or proportioned.
2 of elegant or pleasing shape or appearance.

Derivative

shapeliness n.

THESAURUS

shapely

Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, balanced, becoming, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, clean, clean-cut, clean-limbed, comely, curvaceous, curvy, fair, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, graceful, likely, lovely to behold, neat, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, presentable, proportioned, regular, rounded, sexy, sightly, slender, stacked, statuesque, symmetrical, trim, voluptuous, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

ROGET THESAURUS

shapely

Beauty

N beauty, the beautiful, to kalon, le beau ideal, aesthetics, callaesthetics, pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty, symmetry, comeliness, fairness, polish, gloss, good effect, good looks, belle tournure, trigness, bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence, sublimity, sublimification, concinnity, delicacy, refinement, charm, je ne sais quoi, style, Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus, peacock, butterfly, garden, flower of, pink of, bijou, jewel, work of art, flower, flow'ret gay, wildflower, rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower, pleasurableness, beautifying, landscaping, landscape gardening, decoration, calisthenics, beauty, hunk (of men), beautiful, beauteous, handsome, gorgeous, pretty, lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing, attractive, delicate, dainty, refined, fair, personable, comely, seemly, bonny, good-looking, well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well- proportioned, proper, shapely, symmetrical, harmonious, sightly, fit to be seen, passable, not amiss, goodly, dapper, tight, jimp, gimp, janty, jaunty, trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy, bright, bright eyed, rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked, rosy, ruddy, blooming, in full bloom, brilliant, shining, beamy, beaming, sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing, glossy, sleek, rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious, artistic, artistical, aesthetic, picturesque, pictorial, fait a peindre, well-composed, well grouped, well varied, curious, enchanting becoming, ornamental, undeformed, undefaced, unspotted, spotless, auxilium non leve vultus habet, beauty born of murmuring sound, flowers preach to us if we will hear, gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus, none but the brave deserve the fair, thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty.

Symmetry

N symmetry, shapeliness, finish, beauty, proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism, bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry, centrality, arborescence, branching, ramification, arbor vitae, symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished, beautiful, classic, chaste, severe, regular, uniform, balanced, equal, parallel, coextensive, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, branching, ramous, ramose, filiciform, filicoid, subarborescent, papilionaceous, fuji-shaped, fujigata.