Formless
['fɔːmlɪs] or ['fɔrmləs]
Definition
(adj.) having no physical form; 'belief in a world filled with...formless but often malevolent beings' .
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Definition
(a.) Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FORM]
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Examples
- They helped to organize a formless resentment by endowing it with intelligence and will. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Forth-riding from the formless folds of the mist dawns on him the brightest vision--a green-robed lady, on a snow-white palfrey. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The drapery of the dress changed outline; the tints of the complexion dissolved, and were formless. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was palpitating and formless within the flux of the ghost life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It closed with her in the darkness like some formless evil to be blindly grappled with. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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