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haphazard
English
Etymology
From archaic hap (“chance, luck”) +? hazard.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?hæp?hæz.?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?hæp?hæz.?d/
Adjective
haphazard (comparative more haphazard, superlative most haphazard)
- Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent.
- Synonyms: random, chaotic
- Antonym: systematic
- 1886, N. H. Egleston, Arbor-Day, Popular Science Monthly, p. 689:
- The haphazard efforts of a few, working here and there without concert, easily spent themselves in attaining results far short of what were needed.
- 1909, Fielding H. Garrison, Josiah Willard Gibbs and his relation to modern science, Popular Science Monthly, p. 191:
- we assume a gas to be an assemblage of elastic spheres or molecules, flying in straight lines in all directions, with swift haphazard collisions and repulsions, like so many billiard balls.
- 1912, Robert DeC. Ward, The Value of Non-Instrumental Weather Observations, Popular Science Monthly, p. 129:
- There is a very considerable series of observations — non-instrumental, unsystematic, irregular, "haphazard" if you will — which any one with ordinary intelligence and with a real interest in weather conditions may undertake.
Derived terms
- haphazardly
- haphazardness
Translations
Noun
haphazard (plural haphazards)
- Simple chance, a random accident, luck.
References
- haphazard at OneLook Dictionary Search
- haphazard in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
- haphazard at OneLook Dictionary Search
- haphazard in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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haphazardous
English
Etymology
haphazard +? -ous, influenced by hazardous
Adjective
haphazardous (comparative more haphazardous, superlative most haphazardous)
- haphazard
- 1920, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Doubleday, Page & Company; page 422:
- A superstitious person might have thought it unfortunate that her partner in this speculative industry (as in Wilbur’s disastrous rolling?mills)?was that charming but too haphazardous man of the world, George Amberson.
- 1920, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Doubleday, Page & Company; page 422:
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