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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
unstructured (adj.)
 
 
means “informally organized, free, lacking a structure.” It can be either pejorative or elevated: an unstructured course may be either stimulatingly free or maddeningly disorganized. The word is much used currently in its elevated sense. In tailoring, an unstructured jacket is a loose-fitting one that lacks interfacing and other internal support.  1
 
 
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