AMORPHOUS

amorphous, uncrystallized, uncrystallised

(adjective) without real or apparent crystalline form; “an amorphous mineral”; “amorphous structure”

amorphous

(adjective) 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”

amorphous

(adjective) (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”

amorphous, unstructured

(adjective) lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies

amorphous, formless, shapeless

(adjective) having no definite form or distinct shape; “amorphous clouds of insects”; “an aggregate of formless particles”; “a shapeless mass of protoplasm”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

amorphous (comparative more amorphous, superlative most amorphous)

Lacking a definite form or clear shape.

Synonyms: formless, shapeless, Thesaurus:amorphous

(by extension) Being without definite character or nature.

(by extension) Lacking organization or unity.

(physics) In the non-crystalline solid state of a typically crystalline solid.

(set theory, of a set) Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.

Source: Wiktionary

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A*mor"phous, a. Etym: [Gr.

1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan.

2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare.

– A*mor"phous*ly, adv.

– A*mor"phous*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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