Definitions

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  • adjective Without pattern; random
  • adjective of certain machinery for cutting shapes That do not cut around a pattern
  • adjective of an object That does not belong to any known programming or markup pattern

Etymologies

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From pattern +‎ -less.

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Examples

  • When she remodeled the house — transformed it, really — she brought together golds, yellows, reds, greens, sage and Chinese lacquer, all unified by a carpet that might have pleased Jackson Pollack, a studiously patternless palette of color blotches that gave every first-time viewer pause.

    mjh's blog — 2010 — January 2010

  • Do you know about using a patternless paper towel to smooth the icing?

    Milk Chocolate Malt Ball Cupcakes 2009

  • Dasaroi whirled around it in ancient pattern-dances or in patternless glee, ribbons flowing from hair - every ribbon its own shade of meaning.

    Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

  • The search for patternless form persisted well beyond Schoenberg, of course, and may account for what the critic Henry Pleasants termed "the agony of modern music."

    Hear It, Feel It Eric Felten 2010

  • Other variations are infrequent and patternless enough to defy easy modeling.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting SCOTUS Line-Up 2010

  • Marijuana, alcohol, and many other drugs will cause a spider to spin wild, patternless trash.

    Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

  • The map of large-scale structure looked like someone had scattered iron filings over a plate then briefly run a magnet underneath: no particular pattern, but in no way patternless.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The map of large-scale structure looked like someone had scattered iron filings over a plate then briefly run a magnet underneath: no particular pattern, but in no way patternless.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • Other variations are infrequent and patternless enough to defy easy modeling.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting SCOTUS Line-Up 2010

  • The map of large-scale structure looked like someone had scattered iron filings over a plate then briefly run a magnet underneath: no particular pattern, but in no way patternless.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

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