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
Death exists in these films as an amorphous concept; there’s no cloaked villain carrying a scythe.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
Like the album’s amorphous beginnings, the corresponding film’s conceptualization was gradual.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 7 May 2025
But researchers have since determined that IC/BPS is a chronic and rather amorphous syndrome with a bunch of potential causes, many of which aren’t easy to pinpoint on a test.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 16 Apr. 2025
Wednesday's bizarre, inexact, and amorphous Rose Garden rally was a series of endless platitudes.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
Like the album’s amorphous beginnings, the corresponding film’s conceptualization was gradual.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 7 May 2025
But researchers have since determined that IC/BPS is a chronic and rather amorphous syndrome with a bunch of potential causes, many of which aren’t easy to pinpoint on a test.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 16 Apr. 2025
Wednesday's bizarre, inexact, and amorphous Rose Garden rally was a series of endless platitudes.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amorphous
Adjective
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In the chaotic final stretch of the vote-a-rama, GOP leaders zeroed in on Murkowski, working to address her concerns about the bill’s financial effect on Alaska.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2025
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What surprised me the most Despite a chaotic global economy, brand spending reductions and a cautious outlook on growth, the spending and cash was flowing, flowing, flowing.—
David Doty,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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Evidently areas of the brain developed during unstructured activities can help expedite the completion of specific tasks.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Research shows that unstructured playtime helps build healthy bodies, increases energy and reduces tension and anxiety, according to the American Psychological Association.—
Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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She was dressed in gray baggy pants and a shapeless brown shirt, her tiny hands clasping a clipboard.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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From the shapeless bulbous blobfish to the white, fuzzy-armed yeti crab, some animals live up to their name.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But if Charity’s case history imposes some order and fixity on Eugene’s life, the rest of The Knockout Artist reads like an attempt to thwart this, to replace the tidiness of explanation with something more formless and free.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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With intentionally provocative lyrics, the song takes profane aim at the hypocrisy of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian conservatives, who refuse to respect trans people’s personhood all while applying gender individualism to an ostensibly formless, all-encompassing God.—
Abby Monteil,
Them,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The serious implication of it in the context of a Western, regarding the frontier as a place where state power is unformed, loose, and dubious, remains anecdotal and undeveloped.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 May 2025
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In his sparse notebooks, his childish, unformed handwriting was endearing to me.—
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Sometimes the mission has been fuzzy or concealed: not long after the White House deployed seven hundred marines to Los Angeles, purportedly to help quell the protests against immigration raids, photos spread of them detaining a protester.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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Awards prognostication is similarly fuzzy too, although technical noms will be its strongest play.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 June 2025
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All of these legal tests, however, are quite vague.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
27 June 2025
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Brooks said Act 372 was vague and imposed problems on librarians and bookstore owners trying to avoid prosecution.—
Brett Barrouquere,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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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 5 Jul. 2025.
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