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Recent Examples of formless Elaborating on the different forms of Shiva worshipped across cultures, Tripathi says, the concept of divine being is difficult to understand in its nirguna (formless) form. Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 What do these formless smudges on the page mean? Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025 The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others. Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024 There is clearly some strife between Ben and Louise, unresolved tension that is often exacerbated by Ben’s unemployment, along with his tendency to be a formless wet blanket. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for formless
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Adjective
  • The cabin is full of Arsham’s touches, including bathroom tiles made of recycled material and amorphous glass sconces that appear to billow like fabric.
    John Wogan, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2025
  • What makes Darwin’s silk so extraordinary is its molecular architecture – a blend of crystalline beta-sheet structures that provide strength and amorphous, spring-like domains that add elasticity.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Tom’s final epiphany related to his estranged son isn’t earned, but not because of Ruffalo; his performance cuts a fine line between bitterly self-destructive and warmly spiritual.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Her book is a narrative of personal transformation and spiritual awakening.
    CHRISTINA MAYO, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Pear—Emphasize the waist and upper body; skip shapeless dresses or long jackets.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The book is endlessly recursive, as shapeless as water.
    Nadja Spiegelman, New York Times, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • Indeed, in stark contrast to the incorporeal nature of a digital image, each of Winant’s photographs is, in a sense, a discrete body: a fallible material entity that boasts a hidden physical history and that will compositionally deteriorate over time.
    Jessica Simmons-Reid, Artforum, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • This is a young and talented group with tremendous upside under a defensive coordinator who thrives off chaotic defensive lines.
    Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But everything about this first half offensively — save for one TD pass to Sutton — has felt unorganized and ineffective and chaotic.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Gleason, famously fascinated with UFOs and metaphysical theory, dreamed up the circular home that embodied futuristic ambition while showcasing old-fashioned craftsmanship.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Dao and qi are two metaphysical categories that persisted throughout the history of Chinese thought, with various interpretations of their unification and separation.
    Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Austen’s image expresses energy at odds with its unformed context.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • As is always the political case in this city, crime is spoken about in a faceless and bodiless manner, even when the numbers of those who kill and who are killed by gunfire remain high among this group: young, Black and male.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.
    Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023

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“Formless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/formless. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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