Meanings
- Doing well; performing as well as would usually be expected.
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The first piece of the night is Shostakovich. Its first movement is a sedate, haunting, almost melodramatic nocturne, but before too long the concerto changes gear and becomes energetic, discordant, feral. It's lengthy, too, a real work-out, and much of it is brutally difficult to execute. He's on form tonight. Close to flawless, and his audience — which he cannot see or hear — seems rapt.
2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137Synonyms: in form, up to snuff
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseDoing well; performing as well as would usually be expected.
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on form. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20form
“on form.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20form. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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