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Amorphous

//əˈmɔ(ɹ)fəs// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking a definite form or clear shape.

    "amorphous blob"

  2. 2
    Being without definite character or nature. broadly

    "Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street."

  3. 3
    Lacking organization or unity. broadly
  4. 4
    In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.

    "Near-synonym: noncrystalline"

  5. 5
    Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.
Adjective
  1. 1
    without real or apparent crystalline form wordnet
  2. 2
    unclear because vague or badly organized wordnet
  3. 3
    (of a group of people or an organization) unorganized or unfocused wordnet
  4. 4
    lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies wordnet
  5. 5
    having no definite form or distinct shape wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “without form, shapeless, deformed”) (itself from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”) + -ous. By surface analysis, a- + -morphous.

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