amorphous

comparative more amorphous · superlative most amorphous

1. Lacking a definite form or clear shape.

   amorphous blob

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   The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.

   Synonyms: formless, shapeless · Antonyms: structured, well-defined

2. broadlyBeing without definite character or nature.

   And people talking all the time about the AfD is just what it wants: to foster the impression that the others are ganging up against it. The “authentic” voice of “real people” v the amorphous elite.

   2023 September 27, John Kampfner, “German politics has a built-in firewall against the far right. It’s beginning to crack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street.

   1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC

3. broadlyLacking organization or unity.
4. natural sciencesIn the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.

   Near-synonym: noncrystalline

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   Glass is an amorphous solid, but some glass is called "crystal" because it looks crystalline and has been called crystal since before humans even understood molecular structure at all.

   Synonyms: noncrystalline · Antonyms: crystalline, crystal

5. mathematicsInfinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.