Haphazard
[hæp'hæzəd] or ['hæphæzəd]
Definition
(adj.) marked by great carelessness; 'a most haphazard system of record keeping'; 'slapdash work'; 'slipshod spelling'; 'sloppy workmanship' .
(adj.) dependent upon or characterized by chance; 'a haphazard plan of action'; 'his judgment is rather hit-or-miss' .
(adv.) without care; in a slapdash manner; 'the Prime Minister was wearing a grey 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'.
Typist: Martha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Chance, hap.
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Examples
- He has too much real feeling to address any woman on the haphazard of selfish passion. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Each of these were achieved by working on a definite problem, and in no haphazard way. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- That which was wild had become domesticated; regular crops took the place of haphazard gleanings from brake or prairie; the possibility of electrical starvation was forever left behind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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