UNSTRUCTURED Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

unstructured

adjective

ˌən-ˈstrək-chərd

Definition of unstructured

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 Pamir, which uses machine learning to scrape, parse and categorize vast amounts of unstructured video, image and social media data for its SaaS database, offers another tool. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026 Reviews and customer questions are unstructured information about your product, written in the exact language real customers use. — Usman Ilyas, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026 To pull off this look, regardless of the cut, straighten the roots perfectly and, from midlengths to ends, go for unstructured waves or a tousled effect. — María Diez, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2026 Yesterday morning, at Milan’s Palazzo del Ghiaccio, Max Mara showed a collection of funnel-neck trench coats, unstructured blazers and linen safari jackets in mousy shades of grey and brown for spring 2027. — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unstructured

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Meloni's right-wing coalition says the change will lead to more stable governments and avoid chaotic post-election dealmaking.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026
In a recent Nature study, Stoliker’s team designed an experiment to test whether these directions are truly chaotic and random.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of chaotic

Adjective

That decision, upheld on appeal, put the onus on the Continuum of Care, an amorphous entity with a board and open membership that had long functioned as an appendage of LAHSA but actually had the statutory power to hire or fire the agency.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
Ride Lonesome is amorphous, hazy, dappled, and almost impossibly pretty.

— Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of amorphous

Adjective

Its formless body accommodated slouching, lounging or lying down, selling freedom from both conventional posture and the bourgeois living room.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Inevitably, much of that knowledge was still undigested and poorly sorted; as a result the planet, viewed from Europe, must have seemed a rather impressionistic and formless place.

— Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of formless

Adjective

The same goes for Abra, who also feels a little too unformed in Zoe Phillips’s hands.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
On the contrary, its unformed shape and melange of styles add to the sense that Teng is actively searching for the answer to that question with every cut.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of unformed

Adjective

Along one wall, rows of unshaped, creaseless, open-crown hats wait in various stages of completion.

— Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2026
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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