patternless
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5.4
- adjective
- /ˈpætərnləs/
:
sin patrón
- "My answer is yes, there is something wrong with the scientific method," he wrote—adding (and this is crucial)—"if this method is defined as running experiments and doing data analysis in a patternless way and then reporting, as true, results that pass a statistical significance threshold."
Examples
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"They cruised for several hours, watching the patternless green plain scroll by."
Fiction book (1999) -
His mouth lingered in the place where her arm joined her body before tracing a patternless path over her full, heaving breasts.
Fiction book (1994) -
These appearances were consistent with a so-called "patternless pattern."
Academic text (2006) -
POIROT: He has twelve stab wounds and, as Arbuthnot said, they are patternless.
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As paradox creates a wide, patternless range of experiences, Latin America is often better understood through narrative rather than analytic categories.
Academic text (1993) -
I looked up at the patternless, smeary white stars, sure it would take me hours to fall asleep again; but I don't recall staying awake for even so much as a minute.
Fiction book (1991) -
It looked as if someone had taken a stick and stirred it up so that no sense remained, just a smattering of light cast patternless on the general dark.
Fiction book (1997) -
The critics of the time were not sure how to apprehend an artistic pattern in stories that seemed patternless or to describe the causal in stories that seemed so casual.
Academic text (1993) -
The classic histologic appearance of a solitary fibrous tumor is characterized by a variable, patternless architecture of spindle cells with areas of hypocellularity and adjacent hypercellular regions.
Academic text (2006) -
The wall was painted in a patternless color, giving the room a calm and simple feel.
Synonyms
14
3.4
Not following a usual pattern or rule
8
5.8
A place or thing that has no clear details
Without a design, like a solid color
Plain material like fabric or wallpaper without a pattern
Antonyms
How Patterned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Patternless comes from pattern, meaning 'a repeated design', plus the ending -less, meaning 'without', just like in hopeless. So patternless means 'without a pattern'.