unstructured
unstructured adjective: lacking structure.
Adjective
unstructured (comparative more unstructured, superlative most unstructured)
- Lacking structure.
- His unstructured method of planning scared anyone who had to depend on his schedules.
- Since the day after the 2018 midterm elections, President Donald Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time in unstructured “executive time,” Axios reported Sunday.2019 February 3, Devan Cole, “Axios: Since midterms, Trump has spent nearly 60% of his scheduled time in unstructured ‘executive time’”, in CNN
Examples of unstructured in a sentence
- It's all getting stored and nearly 85 percent of new data is unstructured data.
- But with unstructured improvisation, the risk that directionlessness will give way to pointlessness is high.
- The ridealong probe questions used to initiate the unstructured interviews are listed in Appendix A.
Forms of unstructured
| comparative | more unstructured |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unstructured |
Origin of unstructured
From un- + structured.
Words formed from unstructured
Questions about unstructured
- What does unstructured mean?
- Unstructured means lacking structure.
- What part of speech is unstructured?
- Unstructured is an adjective.
Words near unstructured in the dictionary
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