OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 6854

amorphous

/əˈmɔ(ɹ)fəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
amorfo
Lacking a definite form or clear shape.
The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.
amorphous blob
amorfo
Being 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 th…
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 sordi…
amorfo
In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.
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…
Near-synonym: noncrystalline