different between haphazard vs relaxed

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

From relax +? -ed, originally after Latin relax?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???lækst/

Adjective

relaxed (comparative more relaxed, superlative most relaxed)

1. (obsolete, physiology) Made slack or feeble; weak, soft. [from 15th c.]
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale 1989, p. 54:

     It was a very wet morning. I woke relaxed and melancholy as in the country, and walked about an hour under cover, in the middle of the town […] .

2. Made more lenient; less strict; lax. [from 17th c.]
3. Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely. [from 18th c.]
4. (chiefly physics) Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium. [from 19th c.]
5. (physiology) Of a muscle: soft, not tensed. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

• calm

Antonyms

• stressed, nervous, anxious

Translations

Verb

relaxed

1. simple past tense and past participle of relax