Definition of amorphous in English:

amorphous

adjectiveəˈmɔːfəsəˈmɔrfəs

1Without a clearly defined shape or form.
an amorphous, characterless conurbation
amorphous blue forms and straight black lines
Example sentencesExamples
- The room was darkly lit and the amorphous silhouettes littered about in the shadows made it claustrophobic.
- At first they were just amorphous multicolored shapes that would vanish spontaneously when confronted.
- When such is the case, the beam projected will be highly diffused and of amorphous shape, indicating that it's being bounced off the side of the bore.
- Her third work, a video performance, depicts him performing as an old man, whittling an amorphous shape.
- Not only is it totally misshapen for meat, pretty much an amorphous blob, taking on a slight tear-drop shape, but it's also connected up to an array of tubes, each slowly pumping various fluids into it.
- I just sat and watched amorphous shapes going past through the warped glass.
- Where the paint takes over, it creates amorphous shapes that remain on the surface of the canvas.
- They were amorphous blobs of darkness that shifted between three shapes.
- It gradually changed color to a dull, dark hue and then finally into a less formed white, amorphous shape, before disappearing altogether.
- Stretched along the umbrella's base, a large, pale gray, amorphous shape could be a shadow, a sack or a lifeless body.
- Within the transparency, amorphous shapes glowed a pinkish grey, punctuated with darker, circular masses.
- The cryptic little icons surrounding the figure include clusters of rather phallic winged hearts, a hand that reaches into the picture from beyond the frame and an amorphous red shape emblazoned with a white cross.
- Here an organized coil of thick nickel cable is able to stand on its side, while loose lengths of thinner wire assume increasingly amorphous shapes.
- Several drawings depict forms that have the amorphous shapes of sea life such as hydras and jellyfish.
- Indeed her mysterious motifs and amorphous shapes are grounded in the physical - the human presence in many of her works is at times overwhelming.
- Apart from these clearly definable shapes, the orbicular elements were generally amorphous.
- Sometimes, that's the only way to get an amorphous blob into shape.
- After the amorphous shape was noted and identified by the faithful as an image of Mary, that particular sprinkler head - and only that one - was closed off so that no one could suggest the mundane reasons for the stain.
- Elsewhere, amorphous biological shapes remind you of transplant organs on life-support machines, or the literal ‘test-tube’ babies.
- This repeated approach gets messed up with the layering of gestural elements and, surprisingly, areas that looks like they could be a tiny skyscapes or a shadow of the amorphous forms floating over the black backgrounds.
Synonyms
shapeless, formless, unformed, unshaped, structureless, unstructured, indeterminate, indefinite, vague, nebulous
1. 1.1 Lacking a clear structure or focus.
  an amorphous and leaderless legislature
  Example sentencesExamples
  I have never known a country so amorphous and yet so self contained, so individual.
  In fact, the organizers, an amorphous collection of individuals, groups and organizations, had hoped that possibly 30,000 would participate.
  With this powerful knowledge, we now look at consumers as individuals, not huge amorphous groups of potential buyers.
  The sociology of music remains a somewhat amorphous subdiscipline, with no very clear lines of demarcation between sociology, social anthropology, and ethnomusicology.
  Some of my favorite albums in recent memory used exotic instruments, indecipherable lyrics, and amorphous structures to create a sublime aura of the unreal.
  Generally, when people describe systemic sexism, they refer to an amorphous, unspoken structure in the workplace and an old boys' club dominating the corporate world.
  While this gives much-needed structure to the seemingly amorphous mass that was the British empire, it does require some patience to keep aloft the various intellectual spheres juggled by the author.
  This chapter rejects this approach and focuses on the cultural and commercial exchanges between an amorphous Europe and the societies to its east.
  Therefore, he repeatedly undercuts his real basis of power precisely by figuring as the leader of an amorphous mass.
  International law is one of the most amorphous bodies of law out there.
  Ponds, however, have an amorphous structure, whereas neural networks have a discrete structure based on prior learning.
  And we take them as individuals, not as an amorphous mass.
  Feature films are not just testimonials - they need a shape - and this film is conspicuously amorphous.
  The National Theatre of Scotland is a scheme without precedent, an organisation that will be neither a building nor a company but an amorphous commissioning body.
  This predictably led to a discussion of that vague, amorphous entity called the audience.
  The war effort was built upon volunteer companies and the amorphous state militias behind them.
  They were not individuals, but an amorphous mass, a group of so-called queue jumpers.
  Attempting to answer it by using saber-rattling to attack an amorphous axis of enemies is a great failure of leadership.
  It is undoubtedly a daring attempt to generate a real sense of urbanity and human focus in the spiritual desert of the amorphous North American suburb.
  If they want to get their message across, antiglobalization forces must unite and search for leaders currently lost in the sea of a violent, amorphous mob.
2. 1.2Chemistry Mineralogy (of a solid) not crystalline, or not apparently crystalline.
  an amorphous polymer
  Example sentencesExamples
  It exists in three allotropic forms: a silvery white metal; a yellow, crystalline solid; and an amorphous black powder.
  If the solution is cooled quickly, the molecules are frozen where they are, forming a glass-like amorphous solid.
  Silica exists in several crystalline forms, in a large number of colloidal forms, and as an amorphous solid.
  The majority of the head is infilled with an amorphous mineral deposit, obscuring the rest of the internal and ventral structures.
  Consequently, the formerly crystalline solid becomes amorphous.

Derivatives

amorphously

adverb

A few watercolour-drawings are definitely erotic, but they're amorphously erotic.
Example sentencesExamples
- Since the counter-cultural 1960s, the amorphously named postmodern dance has gone through at least three distinct phases and now probably doesn't exist at all except in replay.
- I want to talk about middle-income New Zealanders - who are somewhat amorphously called ‘middle New Zealand’.
- In addition, with the more amorphously defined ‘public order’ offences, criteria of what constitutes a disturbance are situationally variable.
- I think that the use of the word ‘pagan’ to amorphously and collectively describe the various pre-Christian beliefs and religions of Europe is really dubious, especially when it occurs in television documentaries like this.

amorphousness

noun

The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity.
Example sentencesExamples
- I, unlike a lot of academics, am not bothered by the amorphousness and vagueness of spirituality.
- However, the author argues that the informality and amorphousness of these networks makes it difficult to account for, and engage with, the formal (centralised and institutional) aspects of politics.
- Too much amorphousness can become tedious too, though.
- In actual fact, what we have here are irremediably sick and futureless mass-men, whose ideal is amorphousness, whose ethos is formlessness and who hate nothing so much as discipline, form, definition.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from modern Latin amorphus, from Greek amorphos 'shapeless' (from a- 'without' + morphē 'form') + -ous.

Rhymes

anthropomorphous, polymorphous

Definition of amorphous in US English:

amorphous

adjectiveəˈmɔrfəsəˈmôrfəs

1Without a clearly defined shape or form.
an amorphous, characterless conurbation
amorphous blue forms and straight black lines
Example sentencesExamples
- Indeed her mysterious motifs and amorphous shapes are grounded in the physical - the human presence in many of her works is at times overwhelming.
- It gradually changed color to a dull, dark hue and then finally into a less formed white, amorphous shape, before disappearing altogether.
- Here an organized coil of thick nickel cable is able to stand on its side, while loose lengths of thinner wire assume increasingly amorphous shapes.
- Her third work, a video performance, depicts him performing as an old man, whittling an amorphous shape.
- I just sat and watched amorphous shapes going past through the warped glass.
- At first they were just amorphous multicolored shapes that would vanish spontaneously when confronted.
- After the amorphous shape was noted and identified by the faithful as an image of Mary, that particular sprinkler head - and only that one - was closed off so that no one could suggest the mundane reasons for the stain.
- Apart from these clearly definable shapes, the orbicular elements were generally amorphous.
- Stretched along the umbrella's base, a large, pale gray, amorphous shape could be a shadow, a sack or a lifeless body.
- Where the paint takes over, it creates amorphous shapes that remain on the surface of the canvas.
- The cryptic little icons surrounding the figure include clusters of rather phallic winged hearts, a hand that reaches into the picture from beyond the frame and an amorphous red shape emblazoned with a white cross.
- They were amorphous blobs of darkness that shifted between three shapes.
- The room was darkly lit and the amorphous silhouettes littered about in the shadows made it claustrophobic.
- Within the transparency, amorphous shapes glowed a pinkish grey, punctuated with darker, circular masses.
- When such is the case, the beam projected will be highly diffused and of amorphous shape, indicating that it's being bounced off the side of the bore.
- Not only is it totally misshapen for meat, pretty much an amorphous blob, taking on a slight tear-drop shape, but it's also connected up to an array of tubes, each slowly pumping various fluids into it.
- This repeated approach gets messed up with the layering of gestural elements and, surprisingly, areas that looks like they could be a tiny skyscapes or a shadow of the amorphous forms floating over the black backgrounds.
- Several drawings depict forms that have the amorphous shapes of sea life such as hydras and jellyfish.
- Elsewhere, amorphous biological shapes remind you of transplant organs on life-support machines, or the literal ‘test-tube’ babies.
- Sometimes, that's the only way to get an amorphous blob into shape.
Synonyms
shapeless, formless, unformed, unshaped, structureless, unstructured, indeterminate, indefinite, vague, nebulous
1. 1.1 Lacking a clear structure or focus.
  an amorphous and leaderless legislature
  Example sentencesExamples
  While this gives much-needed structure to the seemingly amorphous mass that was the British empire, it does require some patience to keep aloft the various intellectual spheres juggled by the author.
  And we take them as individuals, not as an amorphous mass.
  Attempting to answer it by using saber-rattling to attack an amorphous axis of enemies is a great failure of leadership.
  With this powerful knowledge, we now look at consumers as individuals, not huge amorphous groups of potential buyers.
  In fact, the organizers, an amorphous collection of individuals, groups and organizations, had hoped that possibly 30,000 would participate.
  This predictably led to a discussion of that vague, amorphous entity called the audience.
  They were not individuals, but an amorphous mass, a group of so-called queue jumpers.
  Generally, when people describe systemic sexism, they refer to an amorphous, unspoken structure in the workplace and an old boys' club dominating the corporate world.
  If they want to get their message across, antiglobalization forces must unite and search for leaders currently lost in the sea of a violent, amorphous mob.
  Some of my favorite albums in recent memory used exotic instruments, indecipherable lyrics, and amorphous structures to create a sublime aura of the unreal.
  It is undoubtedly a daring attempt to generate a real sense of urbanity and human focus in the spiritual desert of the amorphous North American suburb.
  This chapter rejects this approach and focuses on the cultural and commercial exchanges between an amorphous Europe and the societies to its east.
  Therefore, he repeatedly undercuts his real basis of power precisely by figuring as the leader of an amorphous mass.
  Ponds, however, have an amorphous structure, whereas neural networks have a discrete structure based on prior learning.
  I have never known a country so amorphous and yet so self contained, so individual.
  The war effort was built upon volunteer companies and the amorphous state militias behind them.
  Feature films are not just testimonials - they need a shape - and this film is conspicuously amorphous.
  International law is one of the most amorphous bodies of law out there.
  The National Theatre of Scotland is a scheme without precedent, an organisation that will be neither a building nor a company but an amorphous commissioning body.
  The sociology of music remains a somewhat amorphous subdiscipline, with no very clear lines of demarcation between sociology, social anthropology, and ethnomusicology.
2. 1.2Mineralogy Chemistry (of a solid) not crystalline, or not apparently crystalline.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The majority of the head is infilled with an amorphous mineral deposit, obscuring the rest of the internal and ventral structures.
  It exists in three allotropic forms: a silvery white metal; a yellow, crystalline solid; and an amorphous black powder.
  Consequently, the formerly crystalline solid becomes amorphous.
  Silica exists in several crystalline forms, in a large number of colloidal forms, and as an amorphous solid.
  If the solution is cooled quickly, the molecules are frozen where they are, forming a glass-like amorphous solid.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from modern Latin amorphus, from Greek amorphos ‘shapeless’ (from a- ‘without’ + morphē ‘form’) + -ous.

单词	amorphous
释义	Definition of amorphous in English: amorphous adjectiveəˈmɔːfəsəˈmɔrfəs 1Without a clearly defined shape or form. an amorphous, characterless conurbation amorphous blue forms and straight black lines Example sentencesExamples The room was darkly lit and the amorphous silhouettes littered about in the shadows made it claustrophobic. At first they were just amorphous multicolored shapes that would vanish spontaneously when confronted. When such is the case, the beam projected will be highly diffused and of amorphous shape, indicating that it's being bounced off the side of the bore. Her third work, a video performance, depicts him performing as an old man, whittling an amorphous shape. Not only is it totally misshapen for meat, pretty much an amorphous blob, taking on a slight tear-drop shape, but it's also connected up to an array of tubes, each slowly pumping various fluids into it. I just sat and watched amorphous shapes going past through the warped glass. Where the paint takes over, it creates amorphous shapes that remain on the surface of the canvas. They were amorphous blobs of darkness that shifted between three shapes. It gradually changed color to a dull, dark hue and then finally into a less formed white, amorphous shape, before disappearing altogether. Stretched along the umbrella's base, a large, pale gray, amorphous shape could be a shadow, a sack or a lifeless body. Within the transparency, amorphous shapes glowed a pinkish grey, punctuated with darker, circular masses. The cryptic little icons surrounding the figure include clusters of rather phallic winged hearts, a hand that reaches into the picture from beyond the frame and an amorphous red shape emblazoned with a white cross. Here an organized coil of thick nickel cable is able to stand on its side, while loose lengths of thinner wire assume increasingly amorphous shapes. Several drawings depict forms that have the amorphous shapes of sea life such as hydras and jellyfish. Indeed her mysterious motifs and amorphous shapes are grounded in the physical - the human presence in many of her works is at times overwhelming. Apart from these clearly definable shapes, the orbicular elements were generally amorphous. Sometimes, that's the only way to get an amorphous blob into shape. After the amorphous shape was noted and identified by the faithful as an image of Mary, that particular sprinkler head - and only that one - was closed off so that no one could suggest the mundane reasons for the stain. Elsewhere, amorphous biological shapes remind you of transplant organs on life-support machines, or the literal ‘test-tube’ babies. This repeated approach gets messed up with the layering of gestural elements and, surprisingly, areas that looks like they could be a tiny skyscapes or a shadow of the amorphous forms floating over the black backgrounds. Synonyms shapeless, formless, unformed, unshaped, structureless, unstructured, indeterminate, indefinite, vague, nebulous 1.1 Lacking a clear structure or focus. an amorphous and leaderless legislature Example sentencesExamples I have never known a country so amorphous and yet so self contained, so individual. In fact, the organizers, an amorphous collection of individuals, groups and organizations, had hoped that possibly 30,000 would participate. With this powerful knowledge, we now look at consumers as individuals, not huge amorphous groups of potential buyers. The sociology of music remains a somewhat amorphous subdiscipline, with no very clear lines of demarcation between sociology, social anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Some of my favorite albums in recent memory used exotic instruments, indecipherable lyrics, and amorphous structures to create a sublime aura of the unreal. Generally, when people describe systemic sexism, they refer to an amorphous, unspoken structure in the workplace and an old boys' club dominating the corporate world. While this gives much-needed structure to the seemingly amorphous mass that was the British empire, it does require some patience to keep aloft the various intellectual spheres juggled by the author. This chapter rejects this approach and focuses on the cultural and commercial exchanges between an amorphous Europe and the societies to its east. Therefore, he repeatedly undercuts his real basis of power precisely by figuring as the leader of an amorphous mass. International law is one of the most amorphous bodies of law out there. Ponds, however, have an amorphous structure, whereas neural networks have a discrete structure based on prior learning. And we take them as individuals, not as an amorphous mass. Feature films are not just testimonials - they need a shape - and this film is conspicuously amorphous. The National Theatre of Scotland is a scheme without precedent, an organisation that will be neither a building nor a company but an amorphous commissioning body. This predictably led to a discussion of that vague, amorphous entity called the audience. The war effort was built upon volunteer companies and the amorphous state militias behind them. They were not individuals, but an amorphous mass, a group of so-called queue jumpers. Attempting to answer it by using saber-rattling to attack an amorphous axis of enemies is a great failure of leadership. It is undoubtedly a daring attempt to generate a real sense of urbanity and human focus in the spiritual desert of the amorphous North American suburb. If they want to get their message across, antiglobalization forces must unite and search for leaders currently lost in the sea of a violent, amorphous mob. 1.2Chemistry Mineralogy (of a solid) not crystalline, or not apparently crystalline. an amorphous polymer Example sentencesExamples It exists in three allotropic forms: a silvery white metal; a yellow, crystalline solid; and an amorphous black powder. If the solution is cooled quickly, the molecules are frozen where they are, forming a glass-like amorphous solid. Silica exists in several crystalline forms, in a large number of colloidal forms, and as an amorphous solid. The majority of the head is infilled with an amorphous mineral deposit, obscuring the rest of the internal and ventral structures. Consequently, the formerly crystalline solid becomes amorphous. Derivatives amorphously adverb A few watercolour-drawings are definitely erotic, but they're amorphously erotic. Example sentencesExamples Since the counter-cultural 1960s, the amorphously named postmodern dance has gone through at least three distinct phases and now probably doesn't exist at all except in replay. I want to talk about middle-income New Zealanders - who are somewhat amorphously called ‘middle New Zealand’. In addition, with the more amorphously defined ‘public order’ offences, criteria of what constitutes a disturbance are situationally variable. I think that the use of the word ‘pagan’ to amorphously and collectively describe the various pre-Christian beliefs and religions of Europe is really dubious, especially when it occurs in television documentaries like this. amorphousness noun The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Example sentencesExamples I, unlike a lot of academics, am not bothered by the amorphousness and vagueness of spirituality. However, the author argues that the informality and amorphousness of these networks makes it difficult to account for, and engage with, the formal (centralised and institutional) aspects of politics. Too much amorphousness can become tedious too, though. In actual fact, what we have here are irremediably sick and futureless mass-men, whose ideal is amorphousness, whose ethos is formlessness and who hate nothing so much as discipline, form, definition. Origin Mid 18th century: from modern Latin amorphus, from Greek amorphos 'shapeless' (from a- 'without' + morphē 'form') + -ous. Rhymes anthropomorphous, polymorphous Definition of amorphous in US English: amorphous adjectiveəˈmɔrfəsəˈmôrfəs 1Without a clearly defined shape or form. an amorphous, characterless conurbation amorphous blue forms and straight black lines Example sentencesExamples Indeed her mysterious motifs and amorphous shapes are grounded in the physical - the human presence in many of her works is at times overwhelming. It gradually changed color to a dull, dark hue and then finally into a less formed white, amorphous shape, before disappearing altogether. Here an organized coil of thick nickel cable is able to stand on its side, while loose lengths of thinner wire assume increasingly amorphous shapes. Her third work, a video performance, depicts him performing as an old man, whittling an amorphous shape. I just sat and watched amorphous shapes going past through the warped glass. At first they were just amorphous multicolored shapes that would vanish spontaneously when confronted. After the amorphous shape was noted and identified by the faithful as an image of Mary, that particular sprinkler head - and only that one - was closed off so that no one could suggest the mundane reasons for the stain. Apart from these clearly definable shapes, the orbicular elements were generally amorphous. Stretched along the umbrella's base, a large, pale gray, amorphous shape could be a shadow, a sack or a lifeless body. Where the paint takes over, it creates amorphous shapes that remain on the surface of the canvas. The cryptic little icons surrounding the figure include clusters of rather phallic winged hearts, a hand that reaches into the picture from beyond the frame and an amorphous red shape emblazoned with a white cross. They were amorphous blobs of darkness that shifted between three shapes. The room was darkly lit and the amorphous silhouettes littered about in the shadows made it claustrophobic. Within the transparency, amorphous shapes glowed a pinkish grey, punctuated with darker, circular masses. When such is the case, the beam projected will be highly diffused and of amorphous shape, indicating that it's being bounced off the side of the bore. Not only is it totally misshapen for meat, pretty much an amorphous blob, taking on a slight tear-drop shape, but it's also connected up to an array of tubes, each slowly pumping various fluids into it. This repeated approach gets messed up with the layering of gestural elements and, surprisingly, areas that looks like they could be a tiny skyscapes or a shadow of the amorphous forms floating over the black backgrounds. Several drawings depict forms that have the amorphous shapes of sea life such as hydras and jellyfish. Elsewhere, amorphous biological shapes remind you of transplant organs on life-support machines, or the literal ‘test-tube’ babies. Sometimes, that's the only way to get an amorphous blob into shape. Synonyms shapeless, formless, unformed, unshaped, structureless, unstructured, indeterminate, indefinite, vague, nebulous 1.1 Lacking a clear structure or focus. an amorphous and leaderless legislature Example sentencesExamples While this gives much-needed structure to the seemingly amorphous mass that was the British empire, it does require some patience to keep aloft the various intellectual spheres juggled by the author. And we take them as individuals, not as an amorphous mass. Attempting to answer it by using saber-rattling to attack an amorphous axis of enemies is a great failure of leadership. With this powerful knowledge, we now look at consumers as individuals, not huge amorphous groups of potential buyers. In fact, the organizers, an amorphous collection of individuals, groups and organizations, had hoped that possibly 30,000 would participate. This predictably led to a discussion of that vague, amorphous entity called the audience. They were not individuals, but an amorphous mass, a group of so-called queue jumpers. Generally, when people describe systemic sexism, they refer to an amorphous, unspoken structure in the workplace and an old boys' club dominating the corporate world. If they want to get their message across, antiglobalization forces must unite and search for leaders currently lost in the sea of a violent, amorphous mob. Some of my favorite albums in recent memory used exotic instruments, indecipherable lyrics, and amorphous structures to create a sublime aura of the unreal. It is undoubtedly a daring attempt to generate a real sense of urbanity and human focus in the spiritual desert of the amorphous North American suburb. This chapter rejects this approach and focuses on the cultural and commercial exchanges between an amorphous Europe and the societies to its east. Therefore, he repeatedly undercuts his real basis of power precisely by figuring as the leader of an amorphous mass. Ponds, however, have an amorphous structure, whereas neural networks have a discrete structure based on prior learning. I have never known a country so amorphous and yet so self contained, so individual. The war effort was built upon volunteer companies and the amorphous state militias behind them. Feature films are not just testimonials - they need a shape - and this film is conspicuously amorphous. International law is one of the most amorphous bodies of law out there. The National Theatre of Scotland is a scheme without precedent, an organisation that will be neither a building nor a company but an amorphous commissioning body. The sociology of music remains a somewhat amorphous subdiscipline, with no very clear lines of demarcation between sociology, social anthropology, and ethnomusicology. 1.2Mineralogy Chemistry (of a solid) not crystalline, or not apparently crystalline. Example sentencesExamples The majority of the head is infilled with an amorphous mineral deposit, obscuring the rest of the internal and ventral structures. It exists in three allotropic forms: a silvery white metal; a yellow, crystalline solid; and an amorphous black powder. Consequently, the formerly crystalline solid becomes amorphous. Silica exists in several crystalline forms, in a large number of colloidal forms, and as an amorphous solid. If the solution is cooled quickly, the molecules are frozen where they are, forming a glass-like amorphous solid. Origin Mid 18th century: from modern Latin amorphus, from Greek amorphos ‘shapeless’ (from a- ‘without’ + morphē ‘form’) + -ous.
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