Amorphous - this is what? Meaning, examples, interpretation

There is such a word "amorphous" - it is a synonym for the formless, friable. Definition is attributed to the book vocabulary. Consider today an adjective, we will select synonyms and examples.

Value

The explanatory dictionary tells us that the word has two basic meanings: one is special, and the other is book. Let's consider both.

1. When a term is meant, it means "a solid without a crystal structure". For example, "amorphous silicon."
2. "Vague, formless, indefinite." For example: "This man absolutely did not have his own opinion, beliefs and moral landmarks, he was amorphous, like an amoeba."

With the term porridge you can not cook, but the second meaning of the adjective "amorphous" is interesting. You can speculate about what kind of type it is and what its essence is. Naturally, when it comes to man. But first synonyms.

Word-replacements

Almost all of them were used in the value of number two, but there is still something left. The list follows:

• formless;
• uncertain;
• Unstructured;
• inaccurate;
• Fuzzy;
• blurred;
• loose.

Of course, modern language sets us in the mood that the adjective that we are considering, when it is not a matter of physics, is applied mainly to people. The presence of definitions of "fuzzy", "inaccurate", "fuzzy" can cause doubts, but they should be rejected, because there are a lot of contexts and language situations. Perhaps someday such synonyms will be useful to the reader.

Amorphousness as a quality of personality

When people use the adjective "amorphous" (this happens quite often last time), then they express that idea or even the desire that the person, the object of criticism, be a little bolder, more resolute, firmer. That he had a kind of "crystal structure" of moral values and beliefs.

There is an old Soviet word "opportunist". It's pretty rough, but you can say politically correct, like "conformist."

The reader may ask: but do such people have no moral values? After all, they are "out of the majority", yes, they go with the flow, but after all, they have ideas about good and evil that go in the "basic configuration". All right, but the trouble is only that those who catch a tailwind do not hold on to their so-called values and beliefs. This is shown most clearly in the film Bernardo Bertolucci "The Conformist" (1970). In it, the hero was at first a fascist comrade, and then he began to hold the opposite opinion. The film is definitely worth a look at least in order to avoid such collisions in our own lives.

If people easily and freely change their beliefs, it means that they do not cherish them too much. And this is about something yes it says. That's why the man is amorphous. This is what we wanted to say about the friability as characteristics of personality. One more interesting question is next.

Unprincipled and amorphous are the same?

The discerning reader will immediately say that the adjective "unscrupulous" was not on the list of synonyms, and therefore there is a catch in the question. Our reader, as always, is right. The headline contains a rhetorical question.

Let's start with refinement. What does amorphous mean? The one that quickly changes its values and beliefs depending on the situation or does not have any opinion at all.

Unprincipled is one that firmly stands on certain worldview positions, only they do not intersect with kindness, truth and beauty. In other words, an unprincipled person is called when he puts the highest interest in personal interest, rather than Christian values.

In this sense, an example is the film "Devil's Advocate" (1997) and his main character is Kevin Lomax. The film shows how scary to be an unprincipled person, not only for the surrounding people, but also for the cynic, who is obsessed with vanity and money.

We hope that the meaning of the word "amorphous" and its differences from the concept "unprincipled" are clear. It's not so difficult to understand.