Haphazard

Word HAPHAZARD
Character 9
Hyphenation hap haz ard
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Haphazard"

What do we mean by haphazard?

Dependent upon or characterized by mere chance. synonym: chance. adjective

Mere chance; fortuity. noun

By chance; casually. adverb

Chance; accident. noun

Chance; accidental; random: as, a haphazard statement.

Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. noun

Determined by chance, whimsy, or guesswork; unplanned; aimless; random; -- used mostly of human actions. adjective

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

Marked by great carelessness adjective

Dependent upon or characterized by chance adjective

Without care; in a slapdash manner adverb

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

Synonyms and Antonyms for Haphazard

The word "haphazard" in example sentences

By contrast, Frost scolded the state in July for creating what he called a "haphazard application" of its death penalty protocols. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What Bob Semro called "haphazard" is really personal freedom. ❋ Brian T. Schwartz (2010)

I looked around me, at smashed remains: bricks tumbled in haphazard heaps, sections of roofs and walls, ripped apart as if by a giant and scattered like paper, no collection of building materials recognizable as a house for blocks in every direction. ❋ Unknown (2006)

FEMA also deserves its share of blame for redirecting relief trucks around the area in haphazard fashion and in not ordering a streamlining of paperwork in the inital days following the levy break. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Its February 2008 Final Report advised a collaborative "planned approach" - as opposed to "haphazard" - protecting Maine's "treasured ... scenic and natural resources." ❋ Unknown (2009)

No, y’all are using terms legal terms that have established meanings in haphazard and sloppy fashion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Probably because you haven’t entered the discussion – you just re-posted a smashed-together list of right-wing Israel justifications sans the really overt religious and racist ones, and posted it in haphazard fashion more akin to a retarded spambot than an actual person. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His use of the secondary literature is haphazard, which is perhaps to be forgiven in light of the variety of work considered. ❋ Post (2010)

I was dating in a way that can best be described as haphazard, shuffling drinks and dinners and movie dates with a filmmaker, an art collector, a political writer, and an ex. ❋ Kristin Kimball (2010)

This script was not in origin an ‘alphabet’, that is, a haphazard series of letters, each with an independent value of its own, recited in a traditional order that has no reference either to their shapes or to their functions. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

Lord Justice Leveson, the inquiry chairman, said he had thought about overhauling what Mr Dacre described as the "haphazard" system in which 17 bodies issue press cards. ❋ Gordon Rayner (2012)

But it speaks, again, to a questionable decision-making process that rival executives have called haphazard and disjointed. ❋ By TYLER KEPNER (2010)

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