unstructured
4
4.4
- adjective
- /ʌnˈstrʌkʧərd/
:
desestructurado
- Children often benefit from unstructured playtime, which allows them to explore their creativity freely.
- unstructured interviews
- unstructured play
- unstructured task
And the chunk was labeled unstructured creative time every single day.
- And the chunk was labeled unstructured creative time every single day.
- But kids also need unstructured playtime.
- They said the best part about our mom is that she spent a lot of unstructured time with us.
- The great intellectuals, the great intellectual leaps forward occurred often in somewhat unstructured settings.
- When we were, you know, having more unstructured time, more downtime, when we were not being pressured to compete the same way we are now.
- And the artist, like Bukowski in his later years, found himself more and more troubled when he had an unstructured life and didn't have to, you know, go anywhere.
- I am kind of spiritual, but it's the very unstructured spiritual.
- I'm, I'm, you know, I think the unstructured time together.
- It's always, always a small group of people, very high speed, very unstructured, right?
- But, and this is something we talk about relatively often about finding like unstructured creative time.
- It's mixed together out of everything that's in a way accessible, but ultimately what comes out is also unstructured.
- I suppose what it is is that the unstructured connection that they have, which most evidently is observable through play.
- You know how unstructured the organizations are.
Examples
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The great intellectuals, the great intellectual leaps forward occurred often in somewhat unstructured settings.
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The study included, in the initial stage, unstructured interviews, followed by an empirical, comparative survey.
Academic text (1991) -
But, and this is something we talk about relatively often about finding like unstructured creative time.
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"Our robots are designed to work 24 hours a day in an unstructured environment doing something useful."
Academic text (1995) -
Students with autism typically lack the ability to fill unstructured time with productive activity.
Academic text (1999) -
But kids also need unstructured playtime.
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Outside of school, children spend time in relatively unstructured community environments, with minimally trained staff.
Academic text (2008) -
Observations were conducted in unstructured school settings such as free play or recess.
Academic text (2013) -
Likewise, these youngsters frequently have difficulty playing well with peers or alone in unstructured environments.
Academic text (1993) -
During our vacation, we enjoyed many hours of unstructured time, simply wandering the city and discovering new places.
Synonyms
38
3.1
Not in a clear order or plan
10
6.0
Not clear or organized, with ideas that jump around
8
7.3
Not clear or organized, like an explanation with no main idea
7
4.5
Not arranged in a clear or tidy way
7
5.6
Something that has no clear shape, like fog or a cloud
4
3.8
Not in a clear order and often messy
4
4.5
A place or thing that is untidy and not in order
1
3.9
Not put in any order
1
3.6
Not in order and difficult to understand or use
1
4.1
Not in any clear order
1
4.1
Not put in order and left messy
1
6.3
Not done by a plan and lacking order
1
6.5
Not organised in a clear plan or order
Not organized and having no clear order or pattern
Not arranged according to a plan or regular order
Not kept to strict rules and giving people freedom to choose
Antonyms
How Structured
66
4.6
1
3.9
- US
19
2.0
4
4.4
- US
38
3.1
116
4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
unstructured = structured (transparent) = un + structure + ed
The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the meaning of 'structured', making it understandable as 'not structured'.
Etymology
Unstructured joins un- ('not') with structure ('an arranged form' or 'a built plan'). So it means 'not arranged or fixed', like free play or a room with no set order where people can act or imagine freely.