random pattern
No discernible order
A random pattern is an arrangement without predictable regularity or repetition—spots, colors, or elements distributed in no discernible order.
The term is somewhat paradoxical: once you identify something as a pattern, it has recognizable features, even if those features are irregularity and unpredictability.
The fabric had a random pattern of splashes and dots.
- chaoticTotally without arrangement
- all over the placeScattered without order
- scatteredSpread irregularly about
- irregularDeviating from normal patterns
- haphazardLacking organization or plan
unpredictable · shot in the dark · noise · white noise · static · speckled · mottled · leopard print · splatter · Jackson Pollock · scrambled · disarray · chance · arbitrary · jumbled · erratic · spotty · confetti
- pavingbrick, bricks, asphalt, concrete, pavement
- randomnesscoin flips, dice rolls, unpredictability, lottery numbers, entropy
- Cellular AutomataGame of Life, glider, oscillator, spaceship, blinker
- drainagedrain, drains, drainage ditch, drain pipe, floor drains
- nonuniformityheterogeneity, nonuniformity, irregularity, unevenness, inconsistency
random patterngeometric pattern
repeating pattern · regularity · grid pattern · tessellation · lattice
random patternsequence
Ordered succession of elements
logical progression · progression · linear progression · cascade · chronological order
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