amorphous
adjEtymology
From Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “without form, shapeless, deformed”) (itself from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”) + -ous. By surface analysis, a- + -morphous.
Definitions
Lacking a definite form or clear shape.
- amorphous blob
- The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.
Being without definite character or nature.
- 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…
In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.
- Near-synonym: noncrystalline
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at amorphous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at amorphous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at amorphous
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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