structureless

American  

[struhk-cher-lis] / ˈstrʌk tʃər lɪs /

adjective

1. without structure, organization, or arrangement; formless.

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Other Word Forms

• structurelessness noun

Etymology

Origin of structureless

First recorded in 1840–50; structure + -less

Example Sentences

In 2018, the researchers noticed that changing the rigidity and shape of a peptide improves its ability to interact with structureless protein targets such as MYC.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024

In a lockdown of structureless days unless you build the structure, one trimmed matchstick at a time, meals can become the deepest of comforts.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2021

In the pandemic vernacular, we will talk of how quickly we began to lose our place in time, unmoored by the structureless surreality of it all.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2020

Point masses are structureless particles that cannot spin.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Finally, according to Haeckel, these amœboid bodies, after living for a certain time in this condition, return to a state of rest, again contract into a spherical form, and secrete round themselves a structureless envelope.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Lubbock, John, Sir