Meaning of HAPHAZARD
| Pronunciation: | | hap'hazud
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | careless, haphazardly, hit-or-miss, random, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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| | Definition: | | \Hap"haz`ard\, n. [Hap + hazard.]
Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.
We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust.
--Locke.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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