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Lacking a definite form or clear shape.
- amorphous blob
- The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.
- 2
Being without definite character or nature.broadly
- Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street.
- And people talking all the time about the AfD is just what it wants: to foster the impression that the others are ganging up against it. The “authentic” voice of “real people” v the amorphous elite.
- 3
Lacking organization or unity.broadly
- 4
In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.
- Near-synonym: noncrystalline
- Glass is an amorphous solid, but some glass is called "crystal" because it looks crystalline and has been called crystal since before humans even understood molecular structure at all.
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Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.
syn. amorphic · amorphous · formless · shapeless · unshaped · unshapely
ant. misshapen · shapely