as in chaotic
having no definite or recognizable form
writes unstructured compositions that some people might not even regard as poems
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Recent Examples of unstructured
The show earned a nod in the outstanding unstructured reality program category, nominated alongside the likes of Netflix’s America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Love on the Spectrum (also hailing from Netflix), MTV’s RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked and FX’s Welcome to Wrexham.
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Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
Is the data clean and structured, or messy and unstructured?
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Without schedules or obligations, the family embraces an unstructured day built around meals shared and memories made.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2025
Parents can also encourage kids to play outside and engage in more unstructured time to be social and develop their imaginations.
—Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
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Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
Is the data clean and structured, or messy and unstructured?
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Without schedules or obligations, the family embraces an unstructured day built around meals shared and memories made.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2025
Parents can also encourage kids to play outside and engage in more unstructured time to be social and develop their imaginations.
—Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unstructured
Adjective
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Things got a little chaotic and dangerous when a rogue wheel momentarily became the star of a monster truck show.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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His lifestyle became chaotic and dangerous, riddled with violence and crime.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 July 2025
Adjective
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Her pieces usually have an amorphous shape imitating the outline of the plant’s transversal cut, like a very thin slice of a branch, root, leaf or seed.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 June 2025
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For Williams, a structure of feeling encompasses values, outlooks, expressions, and impulses that, while amorphous and broad, nevertheless structure culture and have real impacts in the world.—
Sonja Drimmer,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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There’s not much to say about her shapeless, messy brunette wig, either.—
Jihane Bousfiha,
Vulture,
2 July 2025
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She was dressed in gray baggy pants and a shapeless brown shirt, her tiny hands clasping a clipboard.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Instead, in too many formless episodes, Season 4 favors quiet solo scenes (Syd perfects a dish amid dramatic lighting and a haunting St. Vincent track, in a set piece that looks lovely but has nothing new to say) and earnest two-handers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 June 2025
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But if Charity’s case history imposes some order and fixity on Eugene’s life, the rest of The Knockout Artist reads like an attempt to thwart this, to replace the tidiness of explanation with something more formless and free.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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The serious implication of it in the context of a Western, regarding the frontier as a place where state power is unformed, loose, and dubious, remains anecdotal and undeveloped.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 May 2025
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In his sparse notebooks, his childish, unformed handwriting was endearing to me.—
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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There is a wealth of knowledge and experience here to sift through and, at times, the film’s editing leaves these individual’s offerings unshaped or unclear.—
Sarah-Tai Black,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2023
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It’s by far the album’s worst song, and the one that feels most unshaped by Max Martin’s touch.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Oct. 2021
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“Unstructured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unstructured. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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