unformed

[US]/ʌn'fɔːmd/
[UK]/ˌʌn'fɔrmd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. not having a definite or developed form; not fully developed

Example Sentences

she packed the unformed butter into the mould.

he had an ambitious, albeit unformed, idea for a novel.

The reason for the fail of carbon nitride synthesis was analysed and relevant graphitoid carbon nitride and unformed carbon nitrides were introduced in the article.

Her unformed ideas need to be developed further.

The unformed clay was shaped into a beautiful vase.

His unformed opinions were easily influenced by others.

The unformed team lacked direction and leadership.

Her unformed talent showed great potential.

The unformed dough needed more time to rise.

His unformed skills required practice and training.

The unformed plans had to be revised and finalized.

Her unformed emotions made it difficult for her to express herself.

The unformed project needed clear objectives and goals.

Real-world Examples

It's like that initial stage is over — oneness: infancy, unformed, primitive.

Source: TED Talks (Video Version) Bilingual Selection

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

Source: The Lost Wealth Classics

Nothing is so pleasant to the unformed or partially developed mind as the exercise of power or dominion over others.

Source: The Lost Wealth Classics

The passions thus pampered, whilst the judgment is left unformed, what can be expected to ensue?

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 1)

For me, cinema is more a place where your unformed thoughts and feelings, collect into a collective space and through the narrative.

Source: Women's power

It is intelligible enough to me, now, that unformed fear: the ground of my antipathy has grown clear enough.

Source: Essays on the Four Seasons

The features were almost unformed, preternaturally small under the great, overhanging brow; and they had an expression of fiendish malignity.

Source: Magician

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Source: 19 Psalms Musical Bible Theater Version - NIV

When I arrived at the hospital I was relieved to find her a more human pink, although oddly unformed without her familiar makeup and set hair.

Source: Still Me (Me Before You #3)

There was one dim unformed fear lingering about his sister's mind, to which she never gave utterance, which surrounded the graceless and ungrateful boy with a dreadful mystery.

Source: Difficult Times (Part 2)

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