Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not systematic; not founded upon or in accord with a system; not having a defined system or plan; lacking regular order, distribution, or arrangement.
- Synonyms See
irregular .
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- adjective Not
systematic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking systematic arrangement or method or organization
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Examples
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Sharpe's proof depends upon the assumption that all investors effectively free themselves of "unsystematic" risk by diversification and receive a risk premium only for the remaining "systematic risk" (he argued that rational investors in a perfect market would arbitrage away any premium gained in return for avoidable risks).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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DSM 5 literature reviews are remarkably variable in quality; often one sided, incomplete, and unsystematic; and sometimes giving undue weight to unpublished papers or papers authored by DSM 5 work-group members.
Allen Frances: The DSM 5 Follies, As Told in Its Own Words Allen Frances 2012
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"If people were to start making those unsystematic, stock-specific bets, then correlation would start to fall," Mr. Knapp says.
Stock Prices and Euro: Too Close for Comfort Jonathan Cheng 2011
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Besides, every action is based in some sort of belief, even if that belief is primal ( "I believe I'm hungry, so I'm killing a fatted calf for dinner!"), subconscious, unsystematic, ill-considered, or irrational.
Philosophy 2009
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They make mistakes because they see the world from a narrow, limited perspective, and they have inadequate, unsystematic information.
Katy Welter: Finding the "Fat Catchers" of Criminal Justice Katy Welter 2011
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DSM 5 literature reviews are remarkably variable in quality; often one sided, incomplete, and unsystematic; and sometimes giving undue weight to unpublished papers or papers authored by DSM 5 work-group members.
Allen Frances: The DSM 5 Follies, As Told in Its Own Words Allen Frances 2012
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DSM 5 literature reviews are remarkably variable in quality; often one sided, incomplete, and unsystematic; and sometimes giving undue weight to unpublished papers or papers authored by DSM 5 work-group members.
Allen Frances: The DSM 5 Follies, As Told in Its Own Words Allen Frances 2012
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Christians might take offence at the selective and unsystematic consideration of one of their holiest festivals.
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DSM 5 literature reviews are remarkably variable in quality; often one sided, incomplete, and unsystematic; and sometimes giving undue weight to unpublished papers or papers authored by DSM 5 work-group members.
Allen Frances: The DSM 5 Follies, As Told in Its Own Words Allen Frances 2012
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They make mistakes because they see the world from a narrow, limited perspective, and they have inadequate, unsystematic information.
Katy Welter: Finding the "Fat Catchers" of Criminal Justice Katy Welter 2011
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