Definitions for amorphous

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amorphous a·mor·phous

Spelling: [uh-mawr-fuh s]

IPA: /əˈmɔr fəs/

Amorphous is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 403 anagrams from letters in amorphous (ahmooprsu).

Definitions for amorphous

adjective

1. lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless:
2. of no particular kind or character; indeterminate; having no pattern or structure; unorganized:
3. Petrography, Mineralogy. occurring in a mass, as without stratification or crystalline structure.
4. Chemistry. not crystalline.
5. Biology. having structural components that are not clearly differentiated, as the nuclear material in certain bacteria.

Origin of amorphous

First recorded in 1725-35, amorphous is from the Greek word ámorphos shapeless. See a-⁶, -morph, Examples for amorphous

Sulphur is known in two general forms, crystalline and amorphous.

Prince-Bishops were kittle cattle, an amorphous kind of creature.

A virus might consist not of amorphous matter, but of microscopic beings.

Yes, mold—that slimy, amorphous crud that shows up when things get damp.

It is impossible to ignite there a fragment of amorphous phosphorus.

Not in tax dollars, not in national resources, not even in the amorphous concept of a body count.

How and what makes this amorphous movement step in this direction or that?

These are (a) amorphous substances, (b) fibers, and (c) cells.

But the amorphous blend of character and character motivation somehow morphs into plot.

“We got here hours ago,” says a man with a foot brace who's given up his spot in the amorphous line to sit on a folding chair.