proteiform.

Taking or capable of taking varied or changing forms.

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Words that belong together

• a proteiform being
• proteiform shapes

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The proteiform being offered a different silhouette each time the light returned.

She could describe the proteiform shapes only by what they had stopped resembling.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Descriptive adjective; more/most only where comparative degree is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.