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/əˈmɔ(ɹ)fəs/
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/eɪˈmɔ(ɹ)fəs/
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əˈmɔɹfəs
Adjective
Lacking a definite form or clear shape.
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amorphous blob
The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.
Being without definite character or nature.
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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.
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.
Lacking organization or unity.
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In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.
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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.
Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.
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Adjective
having no definite form or distinct shape
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amorphous clouds of insects
an aggregate of formless particles
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a shapeless mass of protoplasm
lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies
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(of a group of people or an organization) unorganized or unfocused
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A mob is an amorphous crowd of people without ideals, a sum of individuals in which each lives for himself
unclear because vague or badly organized
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Her vague, amorphous statement of her predicament was part of what made it so hard for her to solve it
without real or apparent crystalline form
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an amorphous mineral
amorphous structure