<p>Hylomorphists claim that material objects are understood best as composites of two principles: matter and form. Contemporary hylomorphists argue that the principle of form is required to secure a restricted account of composition, a moderate view that avoids both nihilism and universalism. Fr. James Dominic Rooney argues, first, that any restricted theory of composition is functionally equivalent to hylomorphism and, second, that any hylomorphism worthy of the name must reject what he calls the “substance-part principle.” I focus on the second claim and show that a fairly revisionary version of hylomorphism—what I call “painless hylomorphism”—can accomplish much of the explanatory work that traditional hylomorphisms do while avoiding their pitfalls.</p>