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Lacking shape
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formless
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Early myths described the Primal Being as a nameless, formless power. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was afraid of nameless, formless things that haunted his brain like the Furies. ▪ It whirled by in a blur of faceless ...
Wikipedia
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Formless is the 2nd album from progressive metal band Aghora , released in December, 2006.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm" [syn: amorphous , shapeless ] having no physical form; "belief in a world filled with...formless but often ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from form (n.) + -less . Related: Formlessly ; formlessness .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formless \Form"less\, a. Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. -- Form"less*ly , adv. -- Form"less*ness , n.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Without form; shapeless.
Usage examples of formless.
More formless than humanoid, it writhed forward like an amoeboid centaur.
Here a few formless stone-heaps and straggling bushes represented the ruins, the gardens of palms, and the bullrushes of the Bedawi shepherd lads.
On a low flat shore, far away, white cabals of ghosts huddled and leaped, colossal and formless.
It was terrible, and made upon Domini an indelible impression, for she could not help connecting it with his vision of her future, and it suggested to her formless phantoms of despair.
The scattered undergrowth was woodier than the fuzzy and formless fernlike growth on the flatland.
A formless fiberscope undulated with abstract, computer-generated sexuality while red and green display lasers sliced through the blue air.
It stands over the Beings not as itself requiring base but that it may serve as base to the Form of the Firsts, the Formless Form.
It does not surprise the Achaean in the least that Oceanids and the formless spirit in the murk down here in Tartarus speak his form of Greek to one another.
Matter and wholly outside of Likeness, any participation in Ideal-Form produces some corresponding degree of Likeness to the formless Being There.
A light shadow descended on him from above, and a formless black cloud mass drew near and enveloped him, accompanied by a rising, monotonous roar, encompassing all registers from a high-pitched whistle to a bass booming.
The rest of the men gathered around, and they pulled it open, revealing half a dozen un-opened ration cans, three cans opened and empty, a tiny medical pack, a formless paper folder that could have been nothing but cigarets at some time in the past.
I cut abruptly off the path of endless form and find myself in the Formless, still, still, and still the world of form goes oninto the psychic, into the subtle, into the billions and billions of universes of form available and available and available, endlessly, ceaselessly, dramatically.
The boy whose growth they had watched from the formless mists of babyhood was losing his personality, dissolving hour by hour before their very eyes.
And thus even if I realize the summum bonum, even if I cut abruptly off the path of endless form and find myself in the Formless, still, still, and still the world of form goes oninto the psychic, into the subtle, into the billions and billions of universes of form available and available and available, endlessly, ceaselessly, dramatically.
There is, of course, the perilous Ascent straight to the formless Godhead, and a perfect Descent to a loving embrace of the entire world of the Manythe standard message of all Nondual schools: transcend absolutely every single thing in the Kosmos, embrace absolutely every single thing in the Kosmoswith choiceless compassion or love.