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Synonyms for half-formed

Grammar : Adj
Spell : fawrm
Phonetic Transcription : fɔrm

Top 10 synonyms for half-formed
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Définition of half-formed

Origin :
  • early 13c., from Old French forme "physical form, appearance, pleasing looks; shape, image," from Latin forma "form, contour, figure, shape; appearance, looks' model, pattern, design; sort, kind condition," origin unknown. One theory holds that it is from Greek morphe "form, beauty, outward appearance" (see Morpheus) via Etruscan [Klein]. Sense of "behavior" is first recorded late 14c. Meaning "a document with blanks to be filled in" is from 1855.
  • As in green : adj young, new, blooming
Example sentences :
  • His mind, as developed in his works, had half-formed her own.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • If she ever had a half-formed intention of telling him everything she had given it up now.
  • Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad
  • Therefore it was not difficult to turn him from his half-formed purpose.
  • Extract from : « The Genius » by Margaret Horton Potter
  • I did not say anything about my half-formed intention to run away.
  • Extract from : « Down The River » by Oliver Optic
  • It is the half-formed, the perplexed, and the suggestively monstrous.
  • Extract from : « The Sense of Beauty » by George Santayana
  • These could appreciate; and counselled me in consonance with my half-formed resolution.
  • Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid
  • Was that the half-formed idea that inspired him, unknown to himself?
  • Extract from : « The Frontier » by Maurice LeBlanc
  • The situation crystallized the half-formed resolve in Jennie's mind.
  • Extract from : « Jennie Gerhardt » by Theodore Dreiser
  • She even had to suppress the half-formed longing that it might always be so.
  • Extract from : « Too Old for Dolls » by Anthony Mario Ludovici
  • But his half-formed resolution to make an investigation was not carried out.
  • Extract from : « Baseball Joe at Yale » by Lester Chadwick

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