There is such a word “amorphous” - it is a synonym for formless, loose. The definition refers to book vocabulary. Consider the adjective today, pick up synonyms and examples.
Value
The Explanatory Dictionary tells us that a word has two main meanings: one is special and the other is book. Consider both.
- When the term is meant, then it means "solid without a crystalline structure." For example, "amorphous silicon."
- "Vague, shapeless, indefinite." For example: "This person did not have his own opinion, beliefs or moral guidelines, he was amorphous, similar to an amoeba."
You won’t cook porridge with the term, but the second meaning of the adjective “amorphous” is interesting. You can speculate about what type it is and what its essence is. Naturally, when it comes to man. But first, synonyms.
Swap words
Almost all of them were used in the meaning of number two, but something else remained. The list follows:
- formless;
- vague;
- unstructured;
- inaccurate;
- fuzzy
- diffuse;
- loose.
Of course, the modern language sets us up to the point that the adjective, which we consider when it comes to physics, applies mainly to people. The presence of the definitions “fuzzy”, “inaccurate”, “blurred” 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.
Amorphism as a quality of personality
When people use the adjective “amorphous” (this has been happening quite often lately), they thereby express that thought or even the desire that the person, the object of criticism, be a little bolder, more resolute, firmer. So that he has a kind of “crystalline structure” of moral values and beliefs.
There is an old Soviet word "opportunist." It is rather crude, but one can speak more politically correct, for example, "conformist."
The reader may ask: but do not such people have moral values? After all, they are “out of the majority”, yes, they are adrift, but they have ideas about good and evil that come in the “basic configuration”. Everything is true, but the only trouble is that those who catch a fair wind do not hold on to their so-called values and beliefs too much. This is most clearly shown in the film “Conformist” by Bernardo Bertolucci (1970). In it, the hero was at first a fascist comrade, and then he began to adhere to the opposite opinion. The film is definitely worth a look at least in order to avoid such conflicts in their own lives.
If people easily and freely change their beliefs, it means that they do not value them too much. And that’s talking about something. Amorphous man is dangerous in that way. This is what we wanted to say about friability as a personality trait. Next in line is another interesting question.
Are principlelessness and amorphous the same thing?
A discerning reader will immediately say that the adjective "unprincipled" was not in the list of synonyms, which means that there is a catch in the question. Our reader, as always, is right. The heading is a rhetorical question.
Let's start with the clarification. What does amorphous mean? One that quickly changes its values and beliefs depending on the situation or does not have an 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, a person is called unprincipled when he puts personal interest above all, and not Christian values.
In this sense, a case in point is the film Devil's Advocate (1997) and its main character, Kevin Lomax. The film shows how scary it is to be an unprincipled person, not only for those around you, but for the cynic himself, obsessed exclusively with vanity and money.
We hope that the meaning of the word “amorphous” and its differences from the concept of “unprincipled” are clear. It is not so difficult to comprehend.