amorphous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   without real or apparent crystalline form

   an amorphous mineral

2. 2
   adj

   having no definite form or distinct shape

   amorphous clouds of insects

3. 3
   adj

   Lacking a definite form or clear shape.

   amorphous blob

4. 4
   adj

   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 amorphous, gritty street.

5. 5
   adj

   In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.

   Near-synonym: noncrystalline

6. 6
   adj

   lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies

7. 7
   adj

   Lacking organization or unity.

8. 8
   adj

   Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “without form, shapeless, deformed”) (itself from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”) + -ous. By surface analysis, a- + -morphous.