Dictionary entry

Amorphous

Webster's Dictionary 1913

A‐mor″phous (�), a. [Gr. �; priv. + � form.] 1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan.

2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous.

Scientific treatises... are not seldom rude and amorphous in style.

Hare.

— A‐mor″phous‐ly, adv. — A‐mor″phous‐ness, n.