as in chaotic
having no definite or recognizable form
amorphous lumps of clay magically transformed by a skilled potter's hands into works of art
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Recent Examples of amorphous
Other boundaries seem more amorphous to begin with, like the borders between countries and things like that.
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Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
The global South is an amorphous and much-debated category, encompassing a very broad range of countries.
—Jorge G. CastaÑeda, Foreign Affairs, 4 Feb. 2025
China, through the lens of America, is a world that has always been stuck in time, which has made the touchstones of its culture and humanity even more amorphous to many Americans.
—Steffi Cao, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
The pending rule would have removed the material from the domestic market, leaving manufacturers with little other choice than buying amorphous metals from overseas.
—Christen Smith | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Jan. 2025
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Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
The global South is an amorphous and much-debated category, encompassing a very broad range of countries.
—Jorge G. CastaÑeda, Foreign Affairs, 4 Feb. 2025
China, through the lens of America, is a world that has always been stuck in time, which has made the touchstones of its culture and humanity even more amorphous to many Americans.
—Steffi Cao, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
The pending rule would have removed the material from the domestic market, leaving manufacturers with little other choice than buying amorphous metals from overseas.
—Christen Smith | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amorphous
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Tkachuk brothers’ offense generation The Tkachuk brothers are well known for their innate ability to generate chances thanks to their chaotic playstyle and affinity for going to the dirty areas.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Critics call them a chaotic attack that will have lasting impacts on America.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Feb. 2025
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The constant chaos and the kind of unstructured nature of the team were a big part of that.—
Emile Nuh,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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Male Alzheimer’s caregivers group: The Men’s Breakfast Club is an informal and unstructured gathering of male caregivers.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2025
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Some compress you like a sausage casing, others sag into shapeless blobs after one wash, and the worst?—
Boutayna Chokrane,
WIRED,
16 Jan. 2025
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Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct structures of winding spiral arms, elliptical galaxies are rather shapeless.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
2 Jan. 2025
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The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others.—
Ramesh Ponnuru,
National Review,
19 Dec. 2024
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That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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In his sparse notebooks, his childish, unformed handwriting was endearing to me.—
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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As chief of patrol, the No. 2 unformed official, Chell has feuded wildly and needlessly with the press and politicians while leading a secretive and highly aggressive quality of life unit.—
Harry Siegel,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Feel the warm fuzzy feelings of making someone else feel good.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Yet as Haugerud’s wry, articulate script deftly expands to include other perspectives — including those of Kristin, of Johanne’s liberal-minded poet grandmother Karin (Anne Marit Jacobsen) and eventually of Johanna herself — the picture grows fuzzy and fraught.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2025
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Related Stories The film, however, bears no clear timeline, other than the vague notion of modernity.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Filmmakers work to an intentionally vague brief from Mrs. Muccia Prada: make a short film, using Miu Miu’s latest collection, that articulates a woman’s story.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
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There is a wealth of knowledge and experience here to sift through and, at times, the film’s editing leaves these individual’s offerings unshaped or unclear.—
Sarah-Tai Black,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2023
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It’s by far the album’s worst song, and the one that feels most unshaped by Max Martin’s touch.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Oct. 2021
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“Amorphous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amorphous. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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