haphazard

UK /(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.əd/ US /(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.ɚd/
adj 1noun 1adv 1

Definitions

adj

1

Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent.

Do not make such haphazard changes to the settings; instead, adjust the knobs carefully, a bit at a time.

The haphazard efforts of a few, working here and there without concert, easily spent themselves in attaining results far short of what were needed.

noun

1

Simple chance, a random accident, luck.

You should never talk about your own fingers, and haphazards, to genteel people. You should only talk about agreeable subjects as I do.

I consulted my mother, who was punctiliousness itself, and decided I must go Monday, as agreed. I should be with her again on Wednesday. On such haphazards hang men's destinies sometimes.

adv

1

Haphazardly.

"[...] I suspect that it mostly happens haphazard, though afterwards various noble reasons are invented. About marriage I am cynical.”

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