taking shape
Gradually becoming clearer
Taking shape describes something becoming more defined, organized, or recognizable.
Ideas, plans, and projects take shape as they develop from vague concepts into concrete form: The novel is finally taking shape after months of revision.
Physical things take shape too—a sculpture takes shape under the artist's hands, a building takes shape as construction progresses.
- emergingComing into view
- appearBecome perceptible to sight
- coalescingCombining into single entity
- falling into placeBecoming organized naturally
- evolvingChanging gradually over time
mold · form · maturing · structuring · crystallizing · solidifying · rough draft · formulation · big picture · piece by piece · coming together · manifesting · figure · materializing · in the works · gelling · blueprint · genesis
- in progressunderway, pending, ongoing, active, unfinished
- progressprogress, in progress, promotion, raise, making progress
taking shapefalling apart
Gradually breaking into pieces
disintegrating · collapsing · dissolving · unraveling · breaking down
taking shapeunclear
Not easily understood
shapeless · fading away · inchoate · blurring · ill-defined
take, taking, taken, taker, takes, retake, undertake, undertaking, shape