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immethodical

American  
[im-uh-thod-i-kuhl] / ˌɪm əˈθɒd ɪ kəl /

adjective

  1. not methodical; without method or system.


immethodical British  
/ ˌɪmɪˈθɒdɪkəl /

adjective

  1. lacking in method or planning; disorganized

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of immethodical

First recorded in 1595–1605; im- 2 + methodical

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My reading has been lamentably desultory and immethodical.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

How imperious were the dictates of that nature, to whose immethodical but honest teachings they had been almost entirely given up.

From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

If we sum up in one word the most pervading, constant, and obvious characteristic of our schools, and of the teaching and the learning in them to this day, that word must be, immethodical.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

We concede that he was a loose and immethodical writer; but we fail to find evidence that he often, if ever, substituted fictions for facts, or made false statements or great exaggerations.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

In grammar, rhetoric, logic, my education was imperfect, because immethodical.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

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