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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unformed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His new company is still unformed and unnamed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For it is a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe.
▪ Her unformed talent was for curing injuries; and she was destined to die.
▪ I knew little of psychology but enough to be aware of the impact on the unformed ego of an absent father.
▪ In his unformed fantasies he imagined himself reborn and baptized, a martyr and a saint.
▪ Now he saw something else there, a rough groping for some unformed, folded life.
▪ The impish Forrester scribbles pedagogic remarks all over Jamal's unformed jottings and a sparky, mutually nurturing relationship gets going.
▪ The tiny, sac-like dumplings looked like pale, wet, unformed creatures in their uncooked state.
▪ To an unformed child, Edna Madalyn McGurk Ting was like nuclear fusion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unformed

Unformed \Un*formed"\, a. [In sense 1 properly p. p. of un form; in senses 2 and 3 pref. un- not + formed.]

  1. Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed.

  2. Not formed; not arranged into regular shape, order, or relations; shapeless; amorphous.

  3. (Biol.) Unorganized; without definite shape or structure; as, an unformed, or unorganized, ferment.

    Unformed stars (Astron.), stars not grouped into any constellation; informed stars. See Sporades.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unformed

early 14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle adjective from form (v.).

Wiktionary
unformed

a. 1 Not formed or made. 2 Not having a definite form; shapeless; amorphous. 3 Not well developed. 4 Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed. 5 (context astronomy of stars English) Not grouped into any constellation.

WordNet
unformed
  1. adj. not having form or shape; "unformed clay" [ant: formed]

  2. not formed or organized; "an as yet unformed government"

  3. not yet fully formed; "unformed still in body and mind"

  4. lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed character" [syn: immature]

Usage examples of "unformed".

The present example, like the late Bill, was an undergrown creature, and had the same curiously-twisted nose, the same asymmetrical face and similar ears--large, flat ears that stood out from his head like the handles of an amphora, that had strongly marked Darwinian tubercles, unformed helices and undeveloped lobules.

Gate in the Unformed land took him to another busy hold, the next to a dead elfhame.

Pasgen created a small Gate which deposited him near a Gate in an Unformed domain.

He had barely tasted the power that could be sucked from the Unformed lands and the strange directions in which that power could lead him.

Even when he was out hunting mists in the Unformed lands, he often did not take Torgen because he only needed to go a few feet from the Gate.

Pasgen said to Rhoslyn as they stood near the entry of a new Unformed land and contemplated a patch of mist that was behaving in a most peculiar manner.

Real things, like the palace of Llachar Lle, are created by the exertion of will in an Unformed land.

I knew about the beasts of the Unformed domains, but I never put the two together.

They consulted seriously about which of the Unformed places they knew would be best.

Elidir, does it seem to you that we should look for a different Unformed place?

Still, he would take the Gate to that Unformed land that was so peculiarly alive.

Elizabeth said, recalling that it had got from where it was created to her in the Unformed land, but not very gracefully and it had virtually fallen into her arms.

Gate ahead of them, thinking of the roiling mists of the Unformed land and ending with her decision to create something that could frighten them away from the Gate.

She took the men to an Unformed land and created a lion that killed them.

The last he had told her was that he wished to do some research in the Unformed lands.