nondirectional.

Not oriented toward or specifying a particular direction.

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Words that belong together

• nondirectional hypothesis
• nondirectional response

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The nondirectional hypothesis predicted a difference without specifying its sign.

The response was nondirectional under the test’s classification.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally relational or categorical; comparison only where the particular property admits gradation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: formal properties, scope and scale, organizational relations, analytic representation. Disciplines: academic writing, formal methods, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.