different between haphazard vs inattentive

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)

1. 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)

1. 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.

English

Etymology

in- +? attentive

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.?.?t?n.t?v/

Adjective

inattentive (comparative more inattentive, superlative most inattentive)

1. Of or pertaining to lack of attention; not paying attention; careless.

   He was inattentive in class and did not do well in his exams.

Synonyms

• absent-minded
• distracted
• distrait
• unconcentrated

Antonyms

• attentive
• vigilant

Derived terms

• inattentively
• inattentiveness

Translations

French

Adjective

inattentive

1. feminine singular of inattentif