Unformed

Definition: Unformed

Unformed

Adjective

1. Not having form or shape; "unformed clay".

2. Not formed or organized; "an as yet unformed government".

3. Not yet fully formed; "unformed still in body and mind".

4. Lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed character".

Date "unformed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Note: Unformed \Un*formed"\, adjective. [In sense properly present participle of un form; in senses and prefix un- not formed.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Unformed

Synonym: immature (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: formed (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amorphism	Adjective: shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.
Nonpreparation	Adjective: unprepared; without preparation; incomplete; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unformed

English words defined with "unformed": immature, Indigest ♦ Neutral vowel ♦ Sporades ♦ Unformed stars. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand. (eXistenZ; writing credit: David Cronenberg)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Edward Gibbon	Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Travelers' diarrhea is a syndrome characterized by a twofold or greater increase in the frequency of unformed bowel movements. (references)
		If rapid relief of symptoms is desired after one or two unformed stools accompanied by cramps, nausea, or malaise, diphenoxylate or loperamide may be taken. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unformed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unformed" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	27	66,962

Expression using "unformed": unformed stars. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unformed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pa formë (formless, shapeless, unshapely), i paformuar. (various references)

Bulgarian		смътен (cloudy, dreamy, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, misty, obscure, remote, shadowy, sneaking, vague), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), неформиран, нешколуван, неоформен (unexecuted, unfashioned, unlicked), недоразвит (aborted, abortive, dwarf, embryonic, immature, inchoate, rudimental, rudimentary, underdeveloped, undersized). (various references)

Farsi		ناساخت , تشکیل نشده , بدون سازمان , بدون شکل منظم هندسی . (various references)

German		ungeformt (amorphous). (various references)

Greek		ασχημάτιστοσ, αδιαμαρτύρητοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		alaktalan (amorphous, bulky, cramp, formless, misshapen, shapeless, structureless, unshapely, unshapen). (various references)

Italian		non formato. (various references)

Manx		neueabit, neuchiaddit (uncreated), gyn chiaddey. (various references)

Pig Latin		ormedunfay

Portuguese		informe (Formosa, inform, report, shapeless), inculto (barbaric, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, devastated, fallow, larrikin, low-cut, low-lived, rough, rustic, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unenlightened, uninformed, unlaboured, unlearned, unpolished, unposted, unreclaimed, unschooled, untutored, waste, wild), imaturo (childish, half breed, immature, tender, unbaked, unripe, unseasoned, young, youthful), ainda não formado. (various references)

Russian		бесформенный (amorphous, formless, indigested, malformed, shapeless, unshapely). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neuobličen, nerazvijen (underdeveloped, undeveloped), nenapravljen, neformiran. (various references)

Spanish		desformado. (various references)

Swedish		ännu inte utformad. (various references)

Turkish		biçimsiz (amorphous, distorted, formless, ill shaped, misshapen, off form, out of trim, rambling, sesquipedalian, shapeless, thrawn, ugly, ungainly, unshapely), şekilsiz (amorphous, formless, misshapen, off form, shapeless, unshapely), şekillenmemiş. (various references)

Ukrainian		нерозвинений (dwarfish, inchoate, undeveloped), не створений, безформний (amorphous, diffluent, formless, lumpish, shapeless). (various references)

Vietnamese		xấu xí (ill-looking, unhandsome, unsightly), không ra hình gì; chưa th� nh hình khó coi, không có hình. (various references)

Welsh		annelwig (shapeless, vague). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unformed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unbored, unformal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unformed" (pronounced unfô"rmd)
7	u n f ô" r m d	conformed.
6	-n f ô" r m d	informed, misinformed, uninformed.
5	-f ô" r m d	deformed, formed, malformed, performed, reformed, transformed.
4	-ô" r m d	stormed, swarmed, warmed.
3	-r m d	alarmed, armed, charmed, disarmed, farmed, harmed, outperformed, unarmed, unharmed, uniformed.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-m-n-o-r-u"
	-1 letter: founder, mourned, refound.
	-2 letters: deform, enduro, fonder, fondue, formed, frenum, modern, normed, refund, rodmen, undoer.
	-3 letters: demon, demur, drone, enorm, femur, fondu, forme, forum, found, fremd, frond, fumed, fumer, monde, mound, mourn, mured, nuder, odeum, redon, rouen, round, rumen, under, unfed, uredo.
	-4 letters: demo, derm, doer, dome, done, dore, dorm, doum, dour, drum, dune.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-m-n-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: unfreedom, uniformed.
	+2 letters: undeformed, unfreedoms, uninformed, unreformed.
	+3 letters: dumbfounder, unconfirmed, unperformed.
	+4 letters: dumbfounders, unformulated.
	+5 letters: dumbfoundered, untransformed.
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