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anti-pattern

anti-pattern is the alternative spelling of antipattern.

Meaning of antipattern

Noun

antipattern (plural antipatterns)

  1. A design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in practice.
    • If a Design Pattern gives you a general solution to a recurring problem in a particular context, then what does an anti-pattern give you? An Anti-Pattern tells you how to go from a problem to a BAD solution.2004, Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, Head First Design Patterns, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 612

Forms of anti-pattern

pluralanti-patterns

Questions about anti-pattern

What is anti-pattern the alternative spelling of?
Anti-pattern is the alternative spelling of antipattern.

Words near anti-pattern in the dictionary

  1. anti-particle
  2. anti-particles
  3. anti-passback
  4. anti-patriarch
  5. anti-patriarchs
  6. anti-pattern
  7. anti-patterns
  8. anti-pegasister
  9. anti-pegasisters
  10. anti-personnel
  11. anti-perspirant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-pattern (page history and authors); antipattern (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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