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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FORM'LESS, a. [from form.] Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm" [syn: amorphous, formless, shapeless]
2: having no physical form; "belief in a world filled with...formless but often malevolent beings"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1591 1. having no regular form or shape 2. lacking order or arrangement 3. having no physical existence • formlessly adverb • formlessness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. shapeless; without determinate or regular form. Derivatives: formlessly adv. formlessness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Formless Form"less, a. Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. -- Form"less*ly, adv. -- Form"less*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is formless does not have a clear or definite structure or shape. A series of largely formless images rushed across the screen. = amorphous ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Shapeless, amorphous, chaotic.

Moby Thesaurus

aberrant, abnormal, abundant, aimless, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, anomalistic, anomalous, baggy, blobby, blurred, blurry, capricious, casual, chaotic, characterless, confused, copious, desultory, deviative, different, diffuse, diffusive, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, divergent, eccentric, effusive, erratic, extravagant, exuberant, featureless, fecund, fitful, frivolous, fuzzy, gratuitous, gushing, gushy, haphazard, hazy, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, inform, irregular, kaleidoscopic, lumpen, meaningless, misshapen, misty, nondescript, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, orderless, overflowing, planless, pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, promiscuous, random, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, senseless, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, stray, straying, subnormal, superabundant, systemless, tautologous, teeming, unarranged, unclassified, unclear, undefined, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unnatural, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering