Haphazard

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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