systemlessadj.
/ˈsɪstᵻmlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈsɪstəmlᵻs/ 1. Having no system or orderly arrangement; unsystematic; random.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adjective] > lacking system or method
unmethodical1570
immethodical1605
immethoded1653
amethodical1664
unsystematic1770
unsystematical1780
systemless1805
ramble-scramble1827
immethodic1858
rag-tag1860
impressionistic1909
presystematic1931
1805 Ann. Bot. 1 1 Time was when the whole pursuit of the botanist did not extend beyond a systemless partial acquaintance with a few plants.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxv. 285 Dreading to be called upon..to admire a systemless architecture, because it may happen to have sprung from an irrational religion.
1883 Science 1 521/2 In upper Swabia, glacial deposits present their peculiar landscape of systemless hills and hollows.
1934 Sci. News Let. 18 Aug. 106/2 Under our planless, systemless, anarchic mode of land use we are about to make a reality out of a myth. We are getting ready to create The Great American Desert.
1989 W. Horwood Duncton Found iii. 22 Followers..who, leaderless and systemless, clung on to their faith.
2009 M. D. Jacobson White Mother to Dark Race ii. 42 Morgan contrasted the idle, systemless camp with the industrious systematized school.
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the world > life > biology > organism > [adjective] > not
unorganized1690
inorganic1851
non-organic1856
systemless1863
1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 597 If..these simple species existed in the Azoic era, they were systemless life.
1891 H. W. Mitchell Evol. Life iii. 49 There were a host of lowly organized animal forms, systemless animals, of many varieties of shape.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1805