formless
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5.6
- adjective
- /ˈfɔːrmləs/
:
sin forma
- As the fog rolled in, the landscape became formless, obscuring shapes and lines.
- a formless void
- formless mysteries
- a formless self
G is a bridge between the, the formless dimension and the form.
- G is a bridge between the, the formless dimension and the form.
- And what he was arguing is all life came from formless blobs.
- You know that you are not an entity in space and time, that your true self is formless, infinite, unbounded.
- Some iron despair, such as only an unguessable being from the Gray formless void could have felt before, too hideously alien for any human creature to endure.
- A black Schwartz formless, just formless stone.
- The real matrix is infinite, formless and fundamental.
- So befriend your non local formless self.
- Only when you're formless, everything can still come.
- In fact, the forms in space are the fluctuations of the formless.
- Others will say it's formless, it's a void and the goal is to go into that oneness.
Examples
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The real matrix is infinite, formless and fundamental.
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Likewise, if Ruysch's preparations were removed from their jars, they would degenerate into formless, jellied lumps of tissue.
Academic text (1996) -
It's a formless mass, but it's going to come together.
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The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water.
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And then the formless light began to take on substance and shape.
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Art must reveal to us ideas, formless, spiritual essences.
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The barn door was cluttered with the drowsy, formless animals that now owned him.
Fiction book (1995) -
There she sat, shifting as the shadow shifted, her thoughts as formless and furious as the maddening heat.
Fiction book (1993) -
Creeping closer, Gentry sees movement at the window, a brief, formless shape passing in the moonlight.
Fiction book (1990) -
The deer is generic meat, a formless wedge of brown paint streaked with crimson.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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3.5
It has no clear shape or form
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7.3
Not having a clear shape or regular structure
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4.4
Not organized in a clear plan or order
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5.4
Not fully developed or given a clear shape
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6.5
Not organised in a clear plan or order
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7.0
Not clearly expressed or made definite
Without a clear shape or form
Not having a clear shape or form
Not having a clear shape or form and often changing
Not organized and having no clear order or pattern
Antonyms
How Formed
- Specialized
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4.4
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3.4
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5.6
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3.5
- Specialized
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7.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word formless comes from the simple word form, which means 'shape', and the ending -less, which means 'without'. So something formless is 'without shape', which is why we use it for things that have no clear or definite shape.