amorphously
- adverb
- /əˈmɔrfəsli/
:
de manera amorfa
- The artist's sculpture seemed to flow amorphously, with no distinct edges or lines.
Examples
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The clouds moved amorphously across the sky, creating ever-changing shapes.
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Because it is a very, when looked at sort of amorphously, it's a risk averse community, it would seem in a lot of senses.
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Like Allan Bloom, George Will's villains are amorphously and alternately identified as "the 1960s" or "campus radicals." College life, according to both, was better in the 1950s.
Academic text (1992) -
The jelly wobbled amorphously on the plate, its form shifting with every movement.
Synonyms
In a way that has no clear shape
In a way that has no clear form or outline
In a rough, not finished way that is unclear
Antonyms
How Amorphous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Amorphously comes from Greek parts a- meaning 'not' and morph meaning 'shape', so it literally means 'not shaped'. The -ly ending turns it into a word that describes how something happens, so amorphously means 'in a way that has no clear shape or form'.