formless
/ˈfɔːmləs/US/ˈfɔɹmləs/
formless adjective: without form; shapeless.
Adjective
formless (comparative more formless, superlative most formless)
- Without form; shapeless.
- It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32
- 1985: Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters. — Genesis 1:2 (New Jerusalem Bible)
- Synonyms:
- amorphous
- Without the use of forms or templates.
- You'll be prompted with the New Project dialog (see Figure 1.11) from which you'll have at least two types of projects from which to choose: Windows CE for the Pocket PC Project and Windows CE Formless project.2002, Christopher Tacke, Timothy Bassett, Embedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocket PC Mobile Applications
formless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
formless in Hindi
- formless, shapeless
- निराकार nirākār, बेडौल beḍaul
formless in Tamil
- நிட்களர், வடிவமற்ற, உருவமற்ற
formless in Malayalam
- formless, shapeless, bodiless, unembodied
- അമൂർത്ത amūṟtta
formless in Kannada
- ನಿರಾಕಾರ, ಆಕಾರರಹಿತ, ರೂಪರಹಿತ, ಅಮೂರ್ತ, ಪಾಂಗಿಲ್ಲದ, ಪರಿಜೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ
More languagesFewer languages
- formless in Punjabi
- ਨਿਰੰਕਾਰ niraṅkār
- formless in Gujarati
- નિરાકાર nirākār
- formless in Sanskrit
- आरूप्य ārūpya
Examples of formless in a sentence
- John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless.
- A world of dim, unsensing consciousness; a consciousness of darkness and of silence and of formless struggle.
- Nameless and formless the Spirit within shines forth, unconditioned and everlasting.
Synonyms of formless
Forms of formless
| comparative | more formless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most formless |
Origin of formless
From form + -less.
Words formed from formless
Words that rhyme with formless
Questions about formless
- What does formless mean?
- Formless means without form; shapeless.
- What is formless in Hindi?
- Formless in Hindi is निराकार (nirākār), बेडौल (beḍaul). See Formless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is formless?
- Formless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce formless?
- Formless is pronounced /ˈfɔːmləs/ (UK).
Words near formless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: formless (page history and authors); निराकार (Hindi) (page history and authors); formless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അമൂർത്ത (Malayalam) (page history and authors); formless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਨਿਰੰਕਾਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); નિરાકાર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); आरूप्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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