Word Meanings - FORMLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. -- Form"less*ly, adv. -- Form"less*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORMLESS)
- Shapeless
- Amorphous
- unformed
- formless
- chaotic
- shadowy
- undefined
- monstrous
- misshaped
- ugly
- unsymmetrical
- rude
- uncouth
- grotesque
Related words: (words related to FORMLESS)
- SHADOWY
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon - CHAOTIC
Resembling chaos; confused. - CHAOTICALLY
In a chaotic manner. - UNFORM
To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake. Good. - MONSTROUS
1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural - AMORPHOUS
1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan. 2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized. 3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom - UNDEFINE
To make indefinite; to obliterate or confuse the definition or limitations of. - GROTESQUENESS
Quality of being grotesque. - SHAPELESS
Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n. The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope. - UNSYMMETRICALLY
Not symmetrically. - FORMLESS
Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. -- Form"less*ly, adv. -- Form"less*ness, n. - UNFORMED
Unorganized; without definite shape or structure; as, an unformed, or unorganized, ferment. Unformed stars , stars not grouped into any constellation; informed stars. See Sporades. (more info) 1. Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the - UNCOUTH
Un- not) + c known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See Can to be able, and 1. Unknown. "This uncouth errand." Milton. To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. Spenser. 2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. Harness - GROTESQUE
Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. "Grotesque design." Dryden. "Grotesque incidents." Macaulay. - MONSTROUSLY
In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked. "Who with his wife is monstrously in love." Dryden. - MISSHAPEN
Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n. - GROTESQUELY
In a grotesque manner. - UNSYMMETRICAL
Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry. (more info) 1. Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion - MISSHAPE
To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope. - GROTESQUERY
Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates. Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter. George Gissing. - PARAMORPHOUS
Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism. - SEMICHAOTIC
Partially chaotic. - OVERSHADOWY
Overshadowing.