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单词 formless
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Definition of formless in English:

formless

adjective ˈfɔːmləsˈfɔrmləs
  • Without a clear or definite shape or structure.

    a dark and formless idea
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If a poem is random or formless, I think it's deficient.
    • There, in the flickering firelight, she saw some formless shape join two waiting others.
    • As he neared the hill the shapes took outlines of men instead of the formless gray lumps they'd appeared as.
    • Though the film's focus is on character and the structure appears loose, even formless at times, this is deceptive.
    • The real tragedy of this is that the band seems to have some really decent ideas hiding in these formless almost-songs.
    • After months of seemingly formless frame work the shape of the new community is emerging as the cladding is added to the exterior.
    • A rampart of intricate and infinitely various shapes, it gives form to the formless open sea.
    • Some people try to escape the formless mass of humanity - can you imagine 3 million people living in squalor in camps in one region?
    • A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
    • It is a vague, formless mass movement motivated by divergent expectations of change.
    • This is now an addition of a new idea; it is completely formless and shapeless.
    • The zone suspends light and shadow, hanging them like a formless gray gauze.
    • Going beyond the literal meaning, the exhibition explored the nuanced implications of the formless substance that is dust.
    • An idea slipped out, as formless at first as the faint shadows of the courtyard around them in the early rays of dawn.
    • I shaped a new form out of an abstraction, out of a formless trace.
    • The shapes begin to move faster and become more formless.
    • It seemed as if I had acquired no values from my own upbringing, as if I had no previous idea how human beings should treat each other, as if I was completely formless when I met him.
    • She moved back, her formless shape guarding him, but not blocking the path.
    • I'm beginning to suspect, rather, that we are witnessing the emergence of a new but still largely formless language that will one day be the language of the world.
    • She ran without effort, the world reduced to formless blurs of color.
    Synonyms
    shapeless, amorphous, unformed, unshaped
    nebulous, vague, hazy, misty, shadowy, ill-defined, indistinct, obscure, blurred, blurry, indefinite, indeterminate
    structureless, unstructured, ill-organized

Derivatives

  • formlessly

  • adverb
    • But despite its meticulous construction, upon casual listen the album can appear to be almost formlessly wispy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But it is not my way to relax and be happy about this state of affairs, not when I can be formlessly anxious instead.
      • Therefore, the best leader will act formlessly and effortlessly and will not seek victory in all circumstances if it is not beneficial to his troops.
      • On the way in you're resting formlessly in peace, and equanimity, and awareness, and bliss.
      • It's funny that the postwar children have come to be regarded as a formlessly liberal generation when, as I recall, one of the main projects was to confront the dark side of humankind in order to learn how it might be neutralised.
  • formlessness

  • noun
    • He goes on to describe this notion of chaos as ‘that yawning abyss of formlessness from which all escaped’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Who can say why certain groups gel as they do and hit the listener with coherent loveliness, no matter how discordant the melody, while others laze in formlessness.
      • But I've never felt the urge to convert anyone, feeling that everyone must clothe the formlessness of God in the form that best suits them, culturally and temperamentally.
      • The formlessness of infinite choice hobbles relationships: you can't commit if there is always a better option.
      • They are also quite preternaturally ugly, bringing a rude abbreviation to the extension of the leg and drawing attention to the unbeautiful formlessness of the shoe, and the cheapness of its material and fabrication.
 
 

Definition of formless in US English:

formless

adjectiveˈfɔrmləsˈfôrmləs
  • Without a clear or definite shape or structure.

    a dark and formless idea
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The shapes begin to move faster and become more formless.
    • If a poem is random or formless, I think it's deficient.
    • It seemed as if I had acquired no values from my own upbringing, as if I had no previous idea how human beings should treat each other, as if I was completely formless when I met him.
    • Though the film's focus is on character and the structure appears loose, even formless at times, this is deceptive.
    • I'm beginning to suspect, rather, that we are witnessing the emergence of a new but still largely formless language that will one day be the language of the world.
    • She ran without effort, the world reduced to formless blurs of color.
    • As he neared the hill the shapes took outlines of men instead of the formless gray lumps they'd appeared as.
    • A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
    • This is now an addition of a new idea; it is completely formless and shapeless.
    • There, in the flickering firelight, she saw some formless shape join two waiting others.
    • Going beyond the literal meaning, the exhibition explored the nuanced implications of the formless substance that is dust.
    • I shaped a new form out of an abstraction, out of a formless trace.
    • An idea slipped out, as formless at first as the faint shadows of the courtyard around them in the early rays of dawn.
    • Some people try to escape the formless mass of humanity - can you imagine 3 million people living in squalor in camps in one region?
    • The real tragedy of this is that the band seems to have some really decent ideas hiding in these formless almost-songs.
    • The zone suspends light and shadow, hanging them like a formless gray gauze.
    • A rampart of intricate and infinitely various shapes, it gives form to the formless open sea.
    • After months of seemingly formless frame work the shape of the new community is emerging as the cladding is added to the exterior.
    • She moved back, her formless shape guarding him, but not blocking the path.
    • It is a vague, formless mass movement motivated by divergent expectations of change.
    Synonyms
    shapeless, amorphous, unformed, unshaped
 
 
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