free form

¹

noun

1. a shape having an irregular contour, chiefly used in nonrepresentational art and industrial design.
2. Linguistics. a linguistic form that can occur by itself, as fire, book, or run.

free-form

²

or free·form

[ adjective free-fawrm; adverb free-fawrm ]

adjective

1. characterized by free form:

   free-form sculpture.

2. not organized or planned in a conventional way:

   a free-form international conglomerate.

3. encouraged to function or evolve without advance planning; spontaneous:

   free-form management.

adverb

1. without restrictions or preconceptions:

   The children were allowed to paint free-form.

free form

noun

1. an irregular flowing shape, often used in industrial or fabric design

adjective

1. freely flowing, spontaneous

Word History and Origins

Origin of free form¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Origin of free form²

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

There, Babitz found the ideal milieu for her free-form libertinism, sharing pitchers of Schlitz at Barney’s Beanery with the emergent artists of the decade — Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Larry Bell — and famously posed nude while playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at a local art museum in 1963.

From Los Angeles Times

Younger users will also be unable to use "free-form 2D user creation" from the same date, which it said were games "that allow users to draw or write in 2D and replicate those creations to other users without the completed creation going through Roblox moderation".

From BBC

The free-form rock station KSAN, the voice of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, threw him off the air for interviewing workers who had been fired by one of the station’s sponsors.

From New York Times

She was having trouble getting her own brash and sensuous free-form poetry published by the mainstream companies, as were her friends, and when she learned how simple offset printing was, she decided to do it herself.

From New York Times

Although they tried to find other writers on the series, Colbert, Dinello and Sedaris churned out virtually all the scripts themselves, using a free-form method informed by their years in improv.

From Los Angeles Times