formless

Without form; shapeless.

Adjective

  1. Without form; shapeless.
    • It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space. - 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st...
    • 1985: Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters. — Genesis 1:2 (New Jerusalem Bible)
  2. Without the use of forms or templates.
    • You'll be prompted with the New Project dialog (see Figure 1.11) from which you'll have at least two types of projects from which to choose: Windows CE for the Pocket PC Project and Windows CE Formless project. - 2002,...

Origin

Etymology tree English form Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English formless From form + -less.

Forms

more formless most formless

Synonyms

amorphous shapeless

Derived

formlessly formlessness