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designoid

adj

Etymology

From design + -oid. Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1996 in the book Climbing Mount Improbable.

  1. derived from designō
  2. derived from designer
  3. inherited from designen
  4. formed as designoid — “design + -oid”

Definitions

  1. That came up by accident but appears to be designed.

  2. A designoid object.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for designoid. 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