Meanings
- not comparableWithout 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 - not comparableWithout a repeating pattern; random.
- not comparableThat does not cut around a pattern.
- not comparableThat does not belong to a programming or markup pattern.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From pattern + -less. Piecewise doublet of patronless.
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