Section III.—Form
1°. General Form
- From (Substantives), figure, shape, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, conformation, cut, set, trim, build, make, stamp, cast, mould, fashion, structure.
- Absence of form.
- Regularity of form.
- Irregularity of form.
Feature, lineament, phase, turn, attitude, posture, pose.
Science of form: Morphology.
Similarity of form, isomorphism.
Formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture.
(Verbs). To form, shape, figure, fashion, carve, cut, chisel, hew, rough - hew, cast, rough - cast, hammer out, block out, trim, lick into shape, knock together, mould, sculpture, stamp.
(Adjectives). Formed, etc., receiving form, plastic, fictile.
Giving form, formative, plastic, plasmatic, plasmic.
Amorphism (Substantives), amorphousness, formlessness, shapelessness, disfigurement, defacement, mutilation, see Deformity 846.
Vandalism, vandal.
(Verbs). To destroy form, deform, deface, disfigure, disfeature (see 846), mutilate.
(Adjectives). Shapeless, amorphous, formless, unhewn, rough, unfashioned, unshapen, misshapen, inchoate.
Symmetry (Substantives), shapeliness, uniformity, finish, see Beauty 845, arborescence 256.
(Adjectives). Symmetrical, regular, shapely, well-set, uniform, finished, etc., arborescent 256.
Teres atque rotundus.
Distortion (Substantives), twist, kink, wryness, asymmetry, gibbosity, contortion, malformation, see Ugliness 846, teratology.
(Verbs). To distort, twist, wrest, writhe, wring, contort, kink, buckle.
(Adjectives). Irregular, unsymmetrical, asymmetrical, distorted, twisted, wry, awry, askew, crooked, on one side, humpbacked, hunch-backed, gibbous, gibbose.
(Phrase). All manner of ways.