amorphous

Adjective

  1. having no definite form or distinct shape; “amorphous clouds of insects”; “an aggregate of formless particles”; “a shapeless mass of protoplasm”
    • Synonyms
      • formless
      • shapeless
    • Similar to
      • unformed
    • Related
      • shapelessness
  2. lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies
    • Synonyms
      • unstructured
    • Similar to
      • inorganic
  3. (of a group of people or an organization) unorganized or unfocused; “A mob is an amorphous crowd of people without ideals, a sum of individuals in which each lives for himself”
    • Similar to
      • unstructured
  4. unclear because vague or badly organized; “Her vague, amorphous statement of her predicament was part of what made it so hard for her to solve it”
    • Similar to
      • unclear
  5. without real or apparent crystalline form; “an amorphous mineral”; “amorphous structure”
    • Synonyms
      • uncrystallized
      • uncrystallised
    • Similar to
      • noncrystalline

The following are the words that are in the New Word Project:


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The definition for this word taken from the Terminology app, which is based on the Princeton University’s WordNet lexical database. If you are interested in how I created this resource and how I add new words to it, you can see my blog post Title of Blog Post.

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