Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no pattern; unequaled; peerless.

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  • adjective Not patterned

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  • adjective lacking patterns especially in color

Etymologies

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un- +‎ patterned

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Examples

  • Although unpatterned, this is a brown that is beautiful in its subtlety.

    Country diary: South Uist 2011

  • He has lost the part that made his actions seem natural, unpatterned, subservient to his own will, however much they were always already a product of the brain's mechanical operations.

    Point of View in Fiction 2009

  • I have ended up sticking with unpatterned blocks I think double crochet, and just tend to use the varigated threads for interest.

    The Knitting Olympics girliejones 2010

  • The carpets were plain, unpatterned green or brown and the paintwork a dull cream color.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • The carpets were plain, unpatterned green or brown and the paintwork a dull cream color.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • A raindrop is ordered, and the fall of each is unpatterned, chaotic, yet all raindrops falling together results in a pattern ordered by chaos, and that order can weaken or destroy many of the links of power created by those who wield chaos-

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • A raindrop is ordered, and the fall of each is unpatterned, chaotic, yet all raindrops falling together results in a pattern ordered by chaos, and that order can weaken or destroy many of the links of power created by those who wield chaos, as the fires of sun itself can weaken those who wield order, if they do not understand that the sun is a furnace of chaos-

    Wellspring of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 2004

  • In approximately 14h of recording during the mid-season, we heard only unpatterned sounds and no songs.

    Songs of the Humpback Whale Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 1992

  • Just looking at that unpatterned display turned my guts.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • Phoenix Army would be the best able to cope with Ender's fluid, unpatterned attack.

    Ender's Game Card, Orson Scott 1985

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