formless

English

Etymology

From form +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːmləs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mləs

Adjective

formless (comparative more formless, superlative most formless)

1. Without form; shapeless.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:

     It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.

   • 1985: Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters. — Genesis 1:2 (New Jerusalem Bible)
2. (not comparable) Without the use of forms or templates.
   • 2002, Christopher Tacke, Timothy Bassett, Embedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocket PC Mobile Applications:

     You'll be prompted with the New Project dialog (see Figure 1.11) from which you'll have at least two types of projects from which to choose: Windows CE for the Pocket PC Project and Windows CE Formless project.

Synonyms

• (shapeless): amorphous, shapeless; see also Thesaurus:amorphous

Derived terms

• formlessly
• formlessness

Translations

without form

Bulgarian: безформен (bg) (bezformen) Catalan: sense forma Dutch: vormloos (nl) French: sans forme, informe (fr) Greek: άμορφος (el) m (ámorfos) Ancient: ἄμορφος (ámorphos) Hungarian: alaktalan (hu) Ido: senforma (io) Latin: informis Lithuanian: beformis Polish: bezkształtny (pl), bezpostaciowy (pl) Spanish: sin forma Swedish: formlös (sv)