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as in amorphous
having no definite or recognizable form
what was once an unformed lump of clay is now an attractive, useful bowl
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as in inexperienced
lacking in adult experience or maturity
under his care and tutelage, young men, unformed in mind and body, became battle-worthy soldiers
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Recent Examples of unformed
Public standards have been demolished, and that deprivation has permeated the unformed morality of the young generation.
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Armond White, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023
What words in the yet unformed Occident May come refined with the accents that are ours?
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
Radcliffe’s characters are on the whole more timid, conflicted, insecure, unformed; Viswanathan’s are smarter, impulsive, adventurous and unconventional and yearn for something more.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
Around the same time Loeb's book was published, French physician Alexis Carrel developed techniques for growing tissues in a culture medium: a kind of unformed living material.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
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Armond White, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023
What words in the yet unformed Occident May come refined with the accents that are ours?
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
Radcliffe’s characters are on the whole more timid, conflicted, insecure, unformed; Viswanathan’s are smarter, impulsive, adventurous and unconventional and yearn for something more.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
Around the same time Loeb's book was published, French physician Alexis Carrel developed techniques for growing tissues in a culture medium: a kind of unformed living material.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unformed
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Announced tonight to open in April 2026, the glass-and-concrete masterpiece is designed amorphous and horizontal—like Los Angeles itself—to foster LACMA director Michael Govan’s vision of a democratic curation of artworks, mixing various eras and geographies without wings and hierarchies.Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2024
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Still, the figures’ amorphous outlines suggest that the nature of the relationship may be more obscure.The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 19 Sep. 2024
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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
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Read: When growing up happens in a single conversation That loose sensibility does yield a film that can feel somewhat formless, playing like an eclectic album of snapshots from Chris’s life rather than a cohesive whole.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2024
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During the show’s run, Kevin was sometimes considered selfish and immature, especially when compared to some of the gentler members of the Pearson clan.Toria Sheffield, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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Adult human beings—even the callous, tone-deaf, emotionally immature ones—demonstrate an understanding of death that is remarkable in its sophistication.Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Fleetwood Mac somehow managed to merge their often chaotic and almost operatic personal lives into their own tale in real-time, which then became legend.Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2024
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The snippets of him so far are entertainingly chaotic.Emma Soren, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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The company highlighted the initiation of an adolescent/adult cohort for its NGN-401 clinical trial for Rett syndrome and announced positive interim clinical data.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2024
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Christ stands with arms folded, eyes narrowed—a perfect image of sulking adolescent defiance.Christian K. Kleinbub, ARTnews.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Here, those words are embroidered across the front of an unstructured, six-panel canvas ball cap in a typeface design created by Elisa Wong to brand the L.A. Times’ plants coverage.Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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But the unstructured and informal nature of tips also creates problems with fairness among workers.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Or rather producers only want girls as young as their daughters to be in their shows.Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2024
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The Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation’s Sports Matter Program helps under-resourced organizations, schools and community teams provide opportunities for young athletes.Carole Horst, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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When a public figure sits across from a podcast host to embark on a purportedly shapeless, stream-of-consciousness chat suffused with crude jokes and senseless tangents, an odd alchemy occurs: the speakers begin to sound like pals bantering at a pre-game, with the listener as a silent confidant.Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract.Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Unformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unformed. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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