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词汇 formless
释义 formless
adjective
uk /ˈfɔːm.ləs/ us /ˈfɔːrm.ləs/
without clear shape or structure无明确形状的,无定形的;表述不清的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Patterns and shapes
amorphous
arabesque
argyle
asymmetrically
asymmetry
fishhook
flecked
formlessly
fretted
geoglyph
scalloped
scissor
semilunaris
shapeable
shaped
wavery
wavily
weave
willow pattern
zigzag
Examples from literature

After hours of half-waking, half-sleeping, formless confusion, she dreamed again. 
All sorts of possibilities presented themselves to me—vague, indefinite, formless terrors. 
Presently she became sensible that the sleigh had stopped beside a formless mound of white and the man was shaking her. 
The cottonwoods and willows, on the opposite shore, were mere dreams of trees,—gray, formless, and weird. 
The last glow showed a formless pulp, spreading upon the water. 

Examples of formless


formless
Without that sort of reflection, often speculative and controversial, we are left with a formless anarchy.
They appear like stylized, formless bodies, with smooth clay 'flesh' and internal bones, waiting for meaning to be constructed through performance.
Even the association of "randomness" with "formless" is inappropriate.
The result, as ever, is formless swathes of badly planned, commuter development on whatever greenfield sites developers can get hold of.
It exemplifies a concept of matter beautifully - it can be made into any form, melted down to be transformed and is in itself formless.
They also point to a key difficulty: that the term often seems formless, with suburbs characterized along more than one dimension for most people.
But what do ugly goblins and formless monsters have to do with realism?
We can't survive with form alone, so we must pursue the formless.
At first, all the visits and discussions seemed somewhat formless.
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In the meantime, the money resolution remains formless and shapeless.
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Hansard archive

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I believe that, here again, a lot of formless fears have been generated on this subject.
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Yet even this almost formless incarnation of a prices and incomes policy eventually arrived at this present moment in collision with stage 3.
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We then have these rather formless debates, which are a little like those latest models of ladies' hats, which appear to be inverted velvet knitting bags.
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Hansard archive

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First, housing has moved out of the centre of the cities to the large, formless municipal housing estates which have built up on the edge of those cities.
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Hansard archive

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We don't treat consumers like some formless mass who blindly follow the same dress code.
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Wikipedia

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