Amorphous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
amorphous
    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: lacking the system or structure characteristic of living
       bodies [syn: {amorphous}, {unstructured}]
    3: without real or apparent crystalline form; "an amorphous
       mineral"; "amorphous structure" [syn: {amorphous},
       {uncrystallized}, {uncrystallised}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Amorphous \A*mor"phous\, a. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + morfh` form.]
   1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.
      --Kirwan.
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   2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid
      substance; uncrystallized.
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   3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous.
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            Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and
            amorphous in style.                   --Hare.
      [1913 Webster] -- {A*mor"phous*ly}, adv. --
      {A*mor"phous*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
189 Moby Thesaurus words for "amorphous":
      aberrant, abnormal, adrift, afloat, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory,
      alternating, amorphic, anarchic, anomalistic, anomalous, baggy,
      blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, capricious, casual, chance,
      chancy, changeable, changeful, chaotic, characterless,
      clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, desultory, deviable,
      deviative, different, dim, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct,
      disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, divergent,
      dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, featureless, fickle,
      fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy,
      formless, freakish, frivolous, fuzzy, general, giddy, gratuitous,
      haphazard, hazy, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss,
      ill-defined, immethodical, impetuous, imprecise, impulsive,
      inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant,
      indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
      indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, infirm, inform, irregular,
      irresolute, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, mazy,
      meaningless, mercurial, misshapen, misty, moody, muddy, murky,
      nebulous, nondescript, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic,
      nonuniform, obscure, opaque, orderless, planless, promiscuous,
      rambling, random, restless, roving, scatterbrained, senseless,
      shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling,
      spasmodic, spineless, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly,
      stray, straying, subnormal, sweeping, systemless, transcendent,
      unaccountable, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, unclear,
      uncontrolled, undefined, undependable, undestined, undetermined,
      undirected, undisciplined, unfixed, unformed, ungraded, unjoined,
      unmethodical, unnatural, unordered, unorganized, unplain,
      unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unshaped,
      unsorted, unspecified, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
      unsteadfast, unsteady, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform,
      vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable, veiled, vicissitudinary,
      vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery,
      wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy

    

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