Antonyms for formless


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fawrm-lis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɔrm lɪs


Definition of formless

Origin :
  • 1590s, from form (n.) + -less. Related: Formlessly; formlessness.
  • adj disorganized, vague
Example sentences :
  • To Molly, the road home was like a dark passage full of formless fears.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • A colossal and formless something was rushing across the field of his vision.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • How can so formless a thing, still waiting for its Spiritual Body, be beautiful?
  • Extract from : « The Prodigal Returns » by Lilian Staveley
  • They gathered like the formless winter clouds, without falling in any rain.
  • Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
  • His old dormant, formless lust for power stirred again in his pulses.
  • Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
  • She was exalted and she was shuddering with a formless sense of the earth sway upon her.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • She saw a stir of formless shapes on the ground, and stopped short.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • Doubt entered into him—a doubt of a new kind, formless, hideous.
  • Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad
  • Formless and vague, it wavered and blurred to his straining eyes.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
  • A formless cloud of gray fog blew into the warm, steamy room.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various

Synonyms for formless

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