Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no definite form; shapeless.
- adjective Lacking order.
- adjective Having no material existence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wanting form or shape; without a determinate form; shapeless; amorphous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
form ;shapeless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no physical form
- adjective having no definite form or distinct shape
Etymologies
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Examples
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In this ocean of universal energy or atmospheric environment which we call formless, there is always some form of some kind, but the formless is a form too high for our human mind to comprehend, we have not yet reached the plane of unfoldment where we have cosmic recognition.
Freedom Talks No. II Julia Seton
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If this unimaginable intelligence in the formless is continuously expressing its intelligence in form, the leader who is consciously connected to this intelligence shines and has a high level of attraction.
Paul David Walker: Leadership Insights: Eliminate Endless Circular Arguments Paul David Walker 2010
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As the months have passed, Barak Obama has had time to develop his points and outline his approach to solutions, but these issues remain formless conjecture couched in political rhetoric.
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Our nature dim, like to an unlighted torch, sleeps in formless blank till the fire attain it; this life of life, this light to moon, and glory to the sun.
I.4a 1826
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In Job 38, for example, the first act of creation involves a conflict between God and the sea, that is, the formless, watery deep that was there before the world began.
Timothy Beal: In The Beginning(s): Appreciating The Complexity Of The Bible Timothy Beal 2011
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In Job 38, for example, the first act of creation involves a conflict between God and the sea, that is, the formless, watery deep that was there before the world began.
Timothy Beal: In The Beginning(s): Appreciating The Complexity Of The Bible Timothy Beal 2011
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Metaphysics VII 3: In abstracting all qualities and other determinations from body Aristotle arrived at a conception of characterless, undetermined matter, a “prime matter” that the Neoplatonists later defined as formless and incorporeal (because it was no actual body, but only the necessary underlying condition for bodies).
John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007
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Aside from the expression of pure relation a language may, of course, be formlessformless, that is, in the mechanical and rather superficial sense that it is not encumbered by the use of non-radical elements.
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He may be termed formless by those who, not without much reason to show for themselves, are wedded to the established forms and ratified refinements of poetic art; but it seems reasonable to enlarge the canon till it includes so great and startling a genius, rather than to draw it close and exclude him.
Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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In Job 38, for example, the first act of creation involves a conflict between God and the sea, that is, the formless, watery deep that was there before the world began.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Timothy Beal 2011
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