Amorphous
[ə'mɔːfəs] or [ə'mɔrfəs]
Definition
(adj.) without real or apparent crystalline form; 'an amorphous mineral'; 'amorphous structure' .
(adj.) lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies .
(adj.) having no definite form or distinct shape; 'amorphous clouds of insects'; 'an aggregate of formless particles'; 'a shapeless mass of protoplasm' .
Inputed by Kirsten--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.
(a.) Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.
(a.) Of no particular kind or character; anomalous.
Typist: Morton
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Irregular, shapeless, formless, unshapen.
Editor: Matt
Examples
- Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In 1845, Schrotter of Vienna discovered amorphous or allotropic phosphorus, which rendered the manufacture of matches less dangerous to health and property. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hard rubber, celluloid, glass, soap, paper, and lots of others, all have to deal with amorphous substances, as to which comparatively little has been really settled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The whole amorphous field of clandestine vice will, of course, defeat any census. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Matt