Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Amorphous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Amorphous \A*mor"phous\, a. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? form.]
1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.
--Kirwan.
2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid
substance; uncrystallized.
3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous.
Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and
amorphous in style. --Hare.
-- {A*mor"phous*ly}, adv. -- {A*mor"phous*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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: {formless}, {shapeless}]
2: lacking the system or structure characteristic of living
bodies [syn: {unstructured}]
3: without real or apparent crystalline form; "an amorphous
mineral"; "amorphous structure" [syn: {uncrystallized}, {uncrystallised}]
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