Amorphous \A*mor"phous\, a. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + morfh` form.]
1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.
--Kirwan.
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2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid
substance; uncrystallized.
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3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous.
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Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and
amorphous in style. --Hare.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
amorphous
adj 1: having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds
of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a
shapeless mass of protoplasm" [syn: formless, shapeless]
2: lacking the system or structure characteristic of living
bodies [syn: unstructured]
3: without real or apparent crystalline form; "an amorphous
mineral"; "amorphous structure" [syn: uncrystallized, uncrystallised]
WordNet (r) 2.0
189 Moby Thesaurus words for "amorphous":
aberrant, abnormal, adrift, afloat, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory,
alternating, amorphic, anarchic, anomalistic, anomalous, baggy,
blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, capricious, casual, chance,
chancy, changeable, changeful, chaotic, characterless,
clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, desultory, deviable,
deviative, different, dim, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct,
disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, divergent,
dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, featureless, fickle,
fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy,
formless, freakish, frivolous, fuzzy, general, giddy, gratuitous,
haphazard, hazy, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss,
ill-defined, immethodical, impetuous, imprecise, impulsive,
inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant,
indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, infirm, inform, irregular,
irresolute, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, mazy,
meaningless, mercurial, misshapen, misty, moody, muddy, murky,
nebulous, nondescript, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic,
nonuniform, obscure, opaque, orderless, planless, promiscuous,
rambling, random, restless, roving, scatterbrained, senseless,
shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling,
spasmodic, spineless, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly,
stray, straying, subnormal, sweeping, systemless, transcendent,
unaccountable, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, unclear,
uncontrolled, undefined, undependable, undestined, undetermined,
undirected, undisciplined, unfixed, unformed, ungraded, unjoined,
unmethodical, unnatural, unordered, unorganized, unplain,
unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unshaped,
unsorted, unspecified, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
unsteadfast, unsteady, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform,
vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable, veiled, vicissitudinary,
vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery,
wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
formless, shapeless, uncrystallised, uncrystallized, unstructured
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