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Definition of Formless
1. Adjective. Having no definite form or distinct shape. "A shapeless mass of protoplasm"
2. Adjective. Having no physical form. "Belief in a world filled with...formless but often malevolent beings"
Definition of Formless
1. a. Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
Definition of Formless
1. Adjective. Without form; shapeless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Formless
1. lacking structure [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Formless
Literary usage of Formless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1892)
"But the entire deep was almost nothing, since hitherto it was altogether formless;
yet there was then that which could be formed. For Thou, О Lord, ..."
2. The Origin and History of Contract in Roman Law: Down to the End of the by William Hepburn Buckler (1895)
"They might consist of (1) an entirely formless compact, (2) a solemn appeal ...
I. A formless compact is called pactum in the language of the twelve Tables. ..."
3. The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality by Sidney Lanier (1897)
"And here we may advance to our second class who believe that the poetry of the
future is to be democratic and formless. Here let me first carefully disclaim ..."
4. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"formless Organisms without Organs.—Stereo- metrical Fundamental Forms of Crystals
and of Organisms.—Organic and Inorganic Forces. ..."
5. Elementary Composition by George Rice Carpenter, Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1906)
"The formless Sentence. — There is still one other sort of sentence to be ...
Let us call it the formless sentence, meaning thereby a sentence which is ..."
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