amorphous
/əˈmɔ(ɹ)fəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.95 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lacking organization or unity.
adj
In the non-crystalline solid state of, or being a non-crystalline counterpart to, a crystalline solid.
adj
Infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets.
Example Sentences
- "amorphous blob"
- "The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “without form, shapeless, deformed”) (itself from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”) + -ous. By surface analysis, a- + -morphous.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more amorphous (comparative)
most amorphous (superlative)