Amorphous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster] -- {A*mor"phous*ly}, adv. --
        {A*mor"phous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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