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Adjective
/ˌhapˈhazərd/,
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Lacking any obvious principle of organization,
  1. Lacking any obvious principle of organization
    • - the kitchen drawers contained a haphazard collection of silver souvenir spoons
  1. 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"
  2. dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"
  3. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
  4. (haphazardly) randomly: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"
  5. (haphazardness) randomness: the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
  6. random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent
  7. (haphazardly) In a haphazard manner
  8. (haphazardly) lacking any obvious principle of organization; at random. "The windows to the living room, the foyer, and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken, patched haphazardly with sheets of clear plastic or wooden boards nailed across the frames" (262).
  9. A process occurring without any apparent order or pattern. Distinct from random, in that there is no mathematical basis for characterizing a haphazard process.
  10. Dependent on mere chance; casual.
  11. (adj) - random, by chance