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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective formless has 2 senses
- formless(s = adj.all) amorphous, shapeless - having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm"
- formless(s = adj.all) Array - having no physical form; "belief in a world filled with...formless but often malevolent beings"
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formless, a.
Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
formless, adj. shapeless; without determinate or regular form.
Derivative
formlessly adv. formlessness n.
THESAURUS
formless
aberrant, abnormal, abundant, aimless, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, anomalistic, anomalous, baggy, blobby, blurred, blurry, capricious, casual, chaotic, characterless, confused, copious, desultory, deviative, different, diffuse, diffusive, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, divergent, eccentric, effusive, erratic, extravagant, exuberant, featureless, fecund, fitful, frivolous, fuzzy, gratuitous, gushing, gushy, haphazard, hazy, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, inform, irregular, kaleidoscopic, lumpen, meaningless, misshapen, misty, nondescript, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, orderless, overflowing, planless, pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, promiscuous, random, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, senseless, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, stray, straying, subnormal, superabundant, systemless, tautologous, teeming, unarranged, unclassified, unclear, undefined, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unnatural, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wanderingROGET THESAURUS
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Amorphism
N amorphism, informity, unlicked cub, rudis indigestaque moles, disorder, deformity, disfigurement, defacement, mutilation, deforming, chaos, randomness (disorder), fluid, shapeless, amorphous, formless, unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen, rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.
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