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Amorous vs Amorphous - What's the difference?

amorous | amorphous |

As adjectives the difference between amorous and amorphous

is that amorous is inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment while amorphous is lacking a definite form or clear shape.

amorous

English

Alternative forms

* amourous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
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  • *:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  • Indicating love or sexual desire.
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  • Of or relating to, or produced by, love.
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  • (lb) Affected with love; in love; enamored.
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  • Synonyms

    (inclined or having a propensity to love) loving; fond; affectionate

    References

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    amorphous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • lacking a definite form or clear shape
  • ''The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.
  • being without definite character or nature
  • lacking organization or unity
  • (physics) in the non-crystalline solid state of a typically crystalline solid.
  • (set theory, of a set) infinite and not the disjoint union of two infinite subsets
  • Derived terms

    * amorphism * amorphously

    Synonyms

    * formless * shapeless