Formless
adjective
Having no clear or definable shape or form.
The formless cloud of smoke seemed to grow larger every second.
adjective
Lacking a clear or organized structure.
His ideas were still formless and needed some time to grow.
adjective
Not following a particular structure or rules, free-form.
The formless novel was difficult to follow.
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Academic,Literary
adjective
Having no clear or definable shape or form.
The formless cloud of smoke seemed to grow larger every second.
adjective
Lacking a clear or organized structure.
His ideas were still formless and needed some time to grow.
adjective
Not following a particular structure or rules, free-form.
The formless novel was difficult to follow.
Usage tips
Academic,Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Use 'formless' to describe objects or entities that can't be visualized distinctly.
The artist's impression of grief was a formless shadow in the corner of the canvas.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Descriptions
Apply 'formless' when the outline or surface of something is irregular or vague.
The sculpture remained a formless lump of clay.
Pro Tip 3/3Abstract Concepts
Describe intangible things like feelings or thoughts as 'formless' when they lack clarity.
Her fear was formless, without a name or clear cause.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Use 'formless' to describe objects or entities that can't be visualized distinctly.
The artist's impression of grief was a formless shadow in the corner of the canvas.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Descriptions
Apply 'formless' when the outline or surface of something is irregular or vague.
The sculpture remained a formless lump of clay.
Pro Tip 3/3Abstract Concepts
Describe intangible things like feelings or thoughts as 'formless' when they lack clarity.
Her fear was formless, without a name or clear cause.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Use 'formless' to describe objects or entities that can't be visualized distinctly.
The artist's impression of grief was a formless shadow in the corner of the canvas.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Descriptions
Apply 'formless' when the outline or surface of something is irregular or vague.
The sculpture remained a formless lump of clay.
Pro Tip 3/3Abstract Concepts
Describe intangible things like feelings or thoughts as 'formless' when they lack clarity.
Her fear was formless, without a name or clear cause.
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The Amazing Fertility of...
given as gifts to celebrate the Egyptian New Year symbols of the resurrection of the land this is the busiest time of the year for the farmers the formless mud is
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Who am I? Think again PIPE...
Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup. It becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
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How do animals see in...
To human eyes, the world at night is a formless canvas of grey. Many nocturnal animals, on the other hand,
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The Amazing Fertility of...
given as gifts to celebrate the Egyptian New Year symbols of the resurrection of the land this is the busiest time of the year for the farmers the formless mud is
Video examples
Who am I? Think again PIPE...
Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup. It becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
Video examples
How do animals see in...
To human eyes, the world at night is a formless canvas of grey. Many nocturnal animals, on the other hand,
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Quote examples
Pawan Kalyan
Indian Actor
Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.
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Vincent McNabb
Irish Clergyman
Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled underwood of human life, to his covert on the eternal hills.
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Nita Ambani
Indian Businesswoman
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.
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Simon Schama
British Historian
America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.
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Adrienne Rich
American Poet
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
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Natalie Clifford Barney
American Author
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Charles Ives
American Composer
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
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Peter Brook
British Producer
Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.
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Morris Raphael Cohen
Russian Philosopher
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
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Pawan Kalyan
Indian Actor
Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.
Quote examples
Vincent McNabb
Irish Clergyman
Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled underwood of human life, to his covert on the eternal hills.
Quote examples
Nita Ambani
Indian Businesswoman
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.
Quote examples
Simon Schama
British Historian
America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.
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Adrienne Rich
American Poet
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
Quote examples
Natalie Clifford Barney
American Author
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
Quote examples
Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Charles Ives
American Composer
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
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Peter Brook
British Producer
Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.
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Morris Raphael Cohen
Russian Philosopher
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
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