formless
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔːmləs/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mləs
Adjective
formless (comparative more formless, superlative most formless)
- 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)
- (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
Translations
without form
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