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patternless

patternless adjective: without a decorative pattern.

Adjective

patternless (not comparable)

  1. Without a decorative pattern.
    • "I ought to imitate you, in fact, Mr. Vholes?" says Richard, sitting down again with an impatient laugh and beating the devil's tattoo with his boot on the patternless carpet.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
  2. Without a repeating pattern; random.
  3. That does not cut around a pattern.
  4. That does not belong to a programming or markup pattern.

Origin of patternless

From pattern + -less. Piecewise doublet of patronless.

Words formed from patternless

Questions about patternless

What does patternless mean?
Patternless means without a decorative pattern.
What part of speech is patternless?
Patternless is an adjective.

Words near patternless in the dictionary

  1. patterning
  2. patterning up
  3. patternings
  4. patternize
  5. patternized
  6. patternless
  7. patternlessly
  8. patternlessness
  9. patternlike
  10. patternmaker
  11. patternmakers

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