Form

condition, training. “In good FORM ” or “in bad FORM ” refers to a man’s or horse’s state of being in the sporting world. Form has also had a moral significance of late years, and with the qualifying adjectives attached as occasion requires, is extensively used in general conversation. As, “It was bad FORM of Brown to do that.” “That article was bad FORM .” In the latter cases the word “in” rarely appears.