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Haphazard

Haphazard Meaning & Definition
Haphazard Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Haphazard?

[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"
[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Haphazard: careless | haphazardly | hit-or-miss | random | slapdash | slipshod | sloppy

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

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Haphazard In Webster's Dictionary

\Hap"haz`ard\, n. [Hap + hazard.] Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust. --Locke.

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