haphazard

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Random

   Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent.

   • Do not make such haphazard changes to the settings; instead, adjust the knobs carefully, a bit at a time.
   • The haphazard efforts of a few, working here and there without concert, easily spent themselves in attaining results far short of what were needed.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Simple chance, a random accident, luck.

   • You should never talk about your own fingers, and haphazards, to genteel people. You should only talk about agreeable subjects as I do.
   • I consulted my mother, who was punctiliousness itself, and decided I must go Monday, as agreed. I should be with her again on Wednesday. On such haphazards hang men's destinies sometimes.
   • Economics depends on fickle human nature , its changeable tastes and the varying states of culture and the haphazards of progress . Can economics be any more scientific than psychology and psychiatry?
3. 3

   Haphazardly.

   • "[...] I suspect that it mostly happens haphazard, though afterwards various noble reasons are invented. About marriage I am cynical.”

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