UNFORMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unformed mean? 

• UNFORMED (adjective)
  The adjective UNFORMED has 2 senses:

1. not having form or shape

2. not formed or organized

  Familiarity information: UNFORMED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFORMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having form or shape

Context example:

unformed clay

Similar:

amorphous; formless; shapeless (having no definite form or distinct shape)

unshaped; unshapen (incompletely or imperfectly shaped)

Antonym:

formed (having or given a form or shape)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not formed or organized

Context example:

an as yet unformed government

Similar:

unorganised; unorganized (not having or belonging to a structured whole)

 Context examples 

I sympathised with and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none and related to none. ‘The path of my departure was free,’ and there was none to lament my annihilation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years had transformed the fine-looking, well-grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow of health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless widow, receiving the visit of her former protegee as a favour; but all that was uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left only the interesting charm of remembering former partialities and talking over old times.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)