different between nonconforming vs haphazard

English

Alternative forms

• non-conforming

Etymology

non- +? conforming

Adjective

nonconforming (comparative more nonconforming, superlative most nonconforming)

1. That does not conform, for example to cultural norms, official regulations, or the rules of an established church.

   The lot will become more nonconforming with respect to that particular development standard.

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.