1.
[syn: amorphous, formless, shapeless]
2. having no physical form;
- Example: "belief in a world filled with...formless but often malevolent beings"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Formless \Form"less\, a.
Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of
shape. -- Form"less*ly, adv. -- Form"less*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
formless
adj 1: having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous
clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles";
"a shapeless mass of protoplasm" [syn: amorphous,
formless, shapeless]
2: having no physical form; "belief in a world filled
with...formless but often malevolent beings"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
wandering