haphazard
31haphazardly — haphazard ► ADJECTIVE ▪ lacking order or organization. DERIVATIVES haphazardly adverb …
32random — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. haphazard, casual, chance, fortuitous, aimless. Ant., planned, expected, foreseen. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. haphazard, chance, casual, arbitrary, desultory, aimless, indiscriminate, irregular,… …
33random — random, haphazard, chance, chancy, casual, desultory, hit or miss, happy go lucky are comparable when they mean having a cause or a character that is determined by accident rather than by design or by method. What is random comes, goes, occurs,… …
34haphazardly — adverb 1. in a random manner (Freq. 1) the houses were randomly scattered bullets were fired into the crowd at random • Syn: ↑randomly, ↑indiscriminately, ↑willy nilly, ↑arbitrarily, ↑at random …
35hit-or-miss — adjective dependent upon or characterized by chance a haphazard plan of action his judgment is rather hit or miss • Syn: ↑haphazard • Similar to: ↑random • Derivationally related forms: ↑haphazardness …
36random — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, succession, surge, from Anglo French randun, from Old French randir to run, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German rinnan to run more at run Date: 1561 a haphazard course II. adjective Date: 1632 1. a.… …
37chance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Fortuity Nouns 1. chance, accident, lot; fate, kismet, karma (See destiny); Lady Luck, [Dame] Fortune; luck, fortune, hap, hazard; contingency, adventure, fortuity; randomness, indetermination,… …
38random — [ran′dəm] n. [ME randoun < OFr randon, violence, speed (in a randon, violently) < randir, to run violently < Frank * rant, a running, akin to OHG rinnan, to RUN] impetuous and haphazard movement: now only in at random, without careful… …
39haphazardry — rē noun ( es) : haphazard character or order : chanciness, fortuity the good things in his work always have an air of haphazardry Manchester Guardian Weekly whose forebears had known only the haphazardry of idol and fetish worship Galbraith Welch …
40Mary Wesley — Mary Wesley, CBE (24 June 1912 – 30 December 2002) was an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain s most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including 10 best sellers in the last 20 years of… …
