There is such a word "amorphous" - it is a synonym for shapeless, loose. The definition refers to book vocabulary. Let's consider an adjective today, pick up synonyms and examples.
Meaning
The explanatory dictionary tells us that the word has two main meanings: one is special, and the other is bookish. Consider both.
- When the term is used, it means "a solid without a crystalline structure". For example, "amorphous silicon".
- "Vague, formless, indefinite." For example: “This person had absolutely no opinion, beliefs and moral guidelines, he was amorphous, like an amoeba.”
You can't cook porridge with the term, 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 a person. But first, synonyms.
Substitute words
Almost all of them have been used in the meaning of number two, but there is still something left. The list follows:
- shapeless;
- undefined;
- unstructured;
- inaccurate;
- fuzzy;
- blurry;
- loose.
Of course, modern language tunes us in that the adjective that we consider when it's not about physics applies mainly to people. The presence of the definitions “fuzzy”, “inaccurate”, “fuzzy” may raise doubts, but they should be discarded, because there are a lot of contexts and language situations. Perhaps someday such synonyms will be useful to the reader.
Amorphous as a quality of personality
When people use the adjective "amorphous" (this happens quite often lately), they thereby express the idea or even desire that the person, the object of criticism, be a little bolder, more resolute, firmer. To have a kind of "crystal structure" of moral values and beliefs.
There is an old Soviet word "opportunist". It is rather rude, but you can also say more politically correct, for example, "conformist".
The reader may ask: but don't such people have moral values? After all, they are "from the majority", yes, they go with the flow, but they have ideas about good and evil that come in the "basic configuration". All right, but the only trouble is that those who catch a fair wind do not really hold on to their so-called values and beliefs. This is best shown in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970). In it, the hero was at first a fascist comrade, and then began to adhere to the opposite opinion. The film is definitely worth watching at least in order to avoid such collisions inown life.
If people change their beliefs easily and freely, then they don't value them too much. And that says something. That's why an amorphous person is dangerous. This is what we wanted to say about looseness as a personality characteristic. Another interesting question is next.
Unprincipled and amorphous - are they the same thing?
The astute 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 title contains a rhetorical question.
Let's start with a clarification. What does amorphous mean? One who quickly changes his values and beliefs depending on the situation or has no opinion at all.
The unprincipled one is the one who 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 else, and not Christian values.
In this sense, a good example is the film "The 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 the people around, but also for the cynic himself, obsessed solely with vanity and money.
We hope that the meaning of the word "amorphous" and its difference from the concept of "unscrupulous" are clear. It's not that hard to comprehend.
