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单词 unformed
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Definition of unformed in English:

unformed

adjectiveʌnˈfɔːmdˌənˈfɔrmd
  • 1Without a definite form or shape.

    she packed the unformed butter into the mould
    Example sentencesExamples
    • An egg contains water within its beautiful smooth surface; and an unformed mass, by the incubation of the parent, becomes a regular animal, furnished with bones and sinews, and covered with feathers.
    • A breastfed baby's stools should be frequent, greenish, inoffensively fragrant, loose, and unformed.
    • In the image the distance remains vague and unformed, in contrast to the foreground where a new town has sprung into existence, impelled into life by the railroad.
    • Scans showed she was tiny and that her left hand was unformed.
    • The facade looks promising, but the interior is strangely unformed.
    • Because infants and toddlers normally can have three or more loose stools, an alternate definition of diarrhea in this age group is a twofold increase in the frequency of unformed stool.
    • Symptoms of yang deficiency include feeling cold, feeling fatigued and having unformed stools.
    Synonyms
    vague, indefinite, unspecific, unclear, obscure, nebulous, indistinct, some kind of
    1. 1.1 Not having developed or been developed fully.
      he had an ambitious, albeit unformed, idea for a novel
      unformed youths
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While his energy is to be lauded, Avila's presentation consisted solely of a seemingly endless rambling account of unformed tales, hastily thrown together with little connection.
      • It seems mean to point it out, to pick apart ideas so embryonic and unformed.
      • It is one of those places that you should go to, simply because it will get better with patronage - it has potential, although it's still unformed.
      • Years ago Friedman was on one of the Sunday morning TV news shows, and I always thought there was an air of contrivance about him, something unformed, immature.
      • Plans for this time at home are mostly unformed.
      • Somewhere too, at the very back of his mind, will be the unformed idea that surely - if she does find herself in trouble - Hetty will know some old woman somewhere who will help her get rid of the unwanted thing.
      • Embryology then unfolds as the realization of an initially unformed but completely self-contained potential.
      • The former spy has little experience at the senior government level and his policy ideas remain largely unformed, or least unstated.
      • But then maybe I only think that because I believe they'd be benign and unformed stirrings, augmenting my life and not upheaving it.
      • At whatever cost this information is made available to its potential users, it arrives unformed and unexperienced.
      • ‘I had a lot of unformed jokes in my head, and the more confident I got, the more I had the ability to just tie them all in,’ says Clarke.
      • The album is structured as one song split over two sides, a 40 minute conglomeration of what sounds like a dozen smaller, unformed ideas.
      • I often feel like many aspects of my personality remain child-like and unformed, while in other areas I feel a wisdom that belies my age - possible naive musings, but questions that puzzle me on occasion.
      • This understanding is as yet embryonic, unformed, nowhere near as solidly defined as citizenship was in the very recent past.
      • Embryonic, perhaps, and unformed in many ways, but its depths were black like the deepest velvet.
      • Madeleine may appear to be a walking, talking example of Carnaby Street cool, but she's really an unformed youth at heart.
      • He is only a first time filmmaker, after all, and anyone familiar with his history as a video director knows he is unformed and developing.
      Synonyms
      rudimentary, undeveloped, immature, incomplete, incipient, inchoate, just beginning

Rhymes

malformed, uninformed, unreformed, untransformed
 
 

Definition of unformed in US English:

unformed

adjectiveˌənˈfɔrmdˌənˈfôrmd
  • 1Without a definite form or shape.

    she packed the unformed butter into the mold
    Example sentencesExamples
    • An egg contains water within its beautiful smooth surface; and an unformed mass, by the incubation of the parent, becomes a regular animal, furnished with bones and sinews, and covered with feathers.
    • Scans showed she was tiny and that her left hand was unformed.
    • The facade looks promising, but the interior is strangely unformed.
    • Symptoms of yang deficiency include feeling cold, feeling fatigued and having unformed stools.
    • Because infants and toddlers normally can have three or more loose stools, an alternate definition of diarrhea in this age group is a twofold increase in the frequency of unformed stool.
    • In the image the distance remains vague and unformed, in contrast to the foreground where a new town has sprung into existence, impelled into life by the railroad.
    • A breastfed baby's stools should be frequent, greenish, inoffensively fragrant, loose, and unformed.
    Synonyms
    vague, indefinite, unspecific, unclear, obscure, nebulous, indistinct, some kind of
    1. 1.1 Not having developed or been developed fully.
      he had an ambitious, albeit unformed, idea for a novel
      unformed youths
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He is only a first time filmmaker, after all, and anyone familiar with his history as a video director knows he is unformed and developing.
      • While his energy is to be lauded, Avila's presentation consisted solely of a seemingly endless rambling account of unformed tales, hastily thrown together with little connection.
      • ‘I had a lot of unformed jokes in my head, and the more confident I got, the more I had the ability to just tie them all in,’ says Clarke.
      • Years ago Friedman was on one of the Sunday morning TV news shows, and I always thought there was an air of contrivance about him, something unformed, immature.
      • Madeleine may appear to be a walking, talking example of Carnaby Street cool, but she's really an unformed youth at heart.
      • The former spy has little experience at the senior government level and his policy ideas remain largely unformed, or least unstated.
      • Embryology then unfolds as the realization of an initially unformed but completely self-contained potential.
      • Embryonic, perhaps, and unformed in many ways, but its depths were black like the deepest velvet.
      • I often feel like many aspects of my personality remain child-like and unformed, while in other areas I feel a wisdom that belies my age - possible naive musings, but questions that puzzle me on occasion.
      • The album is structured as one song split over two sides, a 40 minute conglomeration of what sounds like a dozen smaller, unformed ideas.
      • At whatever cost this information is made available to its potential users, it arrives unformed and unexperienced.
      • Somewhere too, at the very back of his mind, will be the unformed idea that surely - if she does find herself in trouble - Hetty will know some old woman somewhere who will help her get rid of the unwanted thing.
      • But then maybe I only think that because I believe they'd be benign and unformed stirrings, augmenting my life and not upheaving it.
      • Plans for this time at home are mostly unformed.
      • This understanding is as yet embryonic, unformed, nowhere near as solidly defined as citizenship was in the very recent past.
      • It seems mean to point it out, to pick apart ideas so embryonic and unformed.
      • It is one of those places that you should go to, simply because it will get better with patronage - it has potential, although it's still unformed.
      Synonyms
      rudimentary, undeveloped, immature, incomplete, incipient, inchoate, just beginning
 
 
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