Haphazard \Hap"haz`ard\ (h[a^]p"h[a^]z`[~e]rd or
h[a^]p`h[a^]z"[~e]rd), n. [Hap + hazard.]
Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.
[1913 Webster]
We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust.
--Locke.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
haphazard \hap"haz`ard\ (h[a^]p"h[a^]z`[~e]rd or
h[a^]p`h[a^]z"[~e]rd), a.
Determined by chance, whimsy, or guesswork; unplanned;
aimless; random; -- used mostly of human actions.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
haphazard
adj 1: dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan
of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss" [syn:
hit-or-miss]
2: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
"sloppy workmanship" [syn: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy]
adv : without care; in a slapdash manner; "the Prime Minister was
wearing a gray suit and a white shirt with a soft
collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar
stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard"
[syn: haphazardly]
WordNet (r) 2.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "haphazard":
accidental, accidentally, ad-lib, aimless, aimlessly, amorphous,
any which way, anyhow, anywise, around, at random, botched,
bungling, capricious, careless, carelessly, casual, casually,
caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, causeless,
chance-medley, clumsy, deficient, designless, desultory,
disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed,
disproportionate, driftless, dysteleological, erratic,
extemporaneous, extemporized, fitful, formless, frivolous,
gratuitous, half-assed, haphazardly, hasty, helter-skelter,
hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, immethodical, impromptu, improvised,
inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, inexplicable, irregular,
makeshift, meaningless, messy, mindless, misshapen, nonsymmetrical,
nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless, potluck,
precipitate, promiscuous, promiscuously, purposeless, random,
random shot, randomly, rough-and-ready, senseless, shapeless,
slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, snap, spasmodic,
sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, systemless,
taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, tripped up,
unaccountable, unarranged, unbegun, unclassified, unconcocted,
unconsidered, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, undirected,
ungraded, unhatched, unjoined, unmade, unmanufactured,
unmethodical, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unplanned,
unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unsorted, unstudied,
unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untidy, ununiform, vague, wandering
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
haphazardly, hit-or-miss, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
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