Abstract. Taking different structures in different modes into account, the paper has developed a new theory on the structured robust stability and boundedness for nonlinear hybrid stochastic differential delay equations (SDDEs) without the linear growth condition. A new Lyapunov function is designed in order to deal with the effects of different structures as well as those of different parameters within the same modes. Moreover, a lot of effort is put into showing the almost sure asymptotic stability in the absence of the linear growth condition. 1. Introduction. Systems in many branches of science and industry not only depend on the present state and the past ones but may also experience abrupt changes in their structures and parameters. Hybrid stochastic differential delay equations (SDDEs; also known as SDDEs with Markovian switching) have been widely used to model these systems (see, e.g., the books [23,24] and the references therein). One of the important issues in the study of hybrid SDDEs is the asymptotic analysis of stability and boundedness (see, e.g., [3,5,13,19]). In asymptotic analysis, robust stability and boundedness have been two of most popular topics. For example, Ackermann [1] gave a nice motivation of robust stability. Hinrichsen and Pritchard [7,8] presented an excellent discussion of the stability radii of linear systems with structured perturbations. Su [26] and Tseng, Fong, and Su [27] discussed robust stability for linear delay equations. In the aspect of robustness of stochastic stability, Haussmann [6] studied robust stability for a linear system and Ichikawa [11] for a semilinear system. Mao, Koroleva, and Rodkina [21] discussed the robust stability of uncertain linear or semilinear stochastic delay systems. Mao [20] investigated the stability of the stochastic delay interval system with Markovian switching. For more information on the stability and boundedness of hybrid SDDEs, please see, e.g., [12,22,23,25]. However, all of the papers, up to 2013, in this area only considered these robust