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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unstructured
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Allied to this is the tendency to work closely with those schools which share this unstructured and flexible approach to referrals.
▪ As with individual teaching, group teaching can be structured or unstructured.
▪ I am unstructured where my father is more reflective.
▪ Much of it is unstructured and unmeasured, and in consequence overlooked and under-rated.
▪ The child-rearing practices of a society lead people to develop expectations about structured or unstructured environments.
▪ The services at six in the evening seem unstructured.
▪ The types of information required will tend to be unpredictable and unstructured so that database access will need to be flexible.
Wiktionary
unstructured

a. Lacking structure.

WordNet
unstructured
  1. adj. lacking definite structure or organization; "an unstructured situation with no one in authority"; "a neighborhood gang with a relatively unstructured system"; "children in an unstructured environment often feel insecure"; "unstructured inkblots" [ant: structured]

  2. lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies [syn: amorphous]

Usage examples of "unstructured".

However, many Buddhist contemplatives have been quite aware of the common error of mistaking such a conscious state for one that is utterly unstructured by language and concepts.

He had had brief unstructured liaisons, the captain knows, with Celeste and Imogen and Natasha, and possibly some others, but he had, so it seemed, always preferred to remain in the little pool of a dozen or so voyagers who avoided any kind of formal extended sexual involvement with one particular person.

Someday he, too, is going to be a lobster, swimming around and waving his pincers in a cyberspace so confusingly elaborate that his uploaded identity is cryptozoic: a living fossil from the depths of geological time, when mass was dumb and space was unstructured.

Without my childhood facility for doing sums I might have been arriving at Megapolis up for the part of some decent and long-suffering father falsely accused of child abuse in Social Workers, or even have become a director in an unstructured suit and Raybans, who would sit romancing his PA and drinking decaff in the corner of our canteen.

But Dallas is not Boondock, and the unnatural practice of monogamy is as rooted in the American culture of the twentieth century as group marriage is rooted in the quasi anarchistic, unstructured culture of Tertius in the third millennium of the diaspora.

Her jeans and sweater had been traded in for what looked like large folds of unstitched, unstructured cloth, skirts and overskirts and capes and shawls.

They appealed by catering to the needs of individuals to discover some purpose and to affirm their identity in a risk-free, unstructured society, and to the fascination of the uncritical for peculiar beliefs.

His silk sport coat was soft and unstructured, like the sleek slacks that were the same toast brown of the leather chair he sat on.

I cannot stop this noise, I do not want to, I shriek and shriek and as my voice grows, memories of war-cries come to me, memories of my band racing in to hunt or fight, memories of funereal ululation and exorcism wails but this is none of these, this is my pain, unstructured, uncultured, unregulated and illicit and my own, my agony, my loneliness, my misery, my guilt.