amorphous
Lacking a definite form or clear shape.
Adjective
- Lacking a definite form or clear shape.
- amorphous blob
- The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.
Antonyms: structured well-defined
- Being without definite character or nature.
- 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...
- 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. - 2023 September 27,...
- Lacking organization or unity.
- 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.
Synonyms: noncrystalline
Antonyms: crystalline crystal
- Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.
Origin
From Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “without form, shapeless, deformed”) (itself from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”) + -ous. By surface analysis, a- + -morphous.
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amorphism amorphous carbon amorphously amorphousness phosphopeptide-amorphous polyamorphous