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antipattern

noun

Etymology

From anti- + pattern, coined by Andrew Koenig in 1995.

  1. derived from patrōnus
  2. derived from patron
  3. inherited from patron
  4. prefixed as antipattern — “anti + pattern”

Definitions

  1. A design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in…

    A design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in practice.

    • If a Design Pattern gives you a general solution to a recurring problem in a particular context, then what does an anti-pattern give you? An Anti-Pattern tells you how to go from a problem to a BAD solution.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antipattern. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA