haphazard

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Adverb
• HYPHEN: hap=haz=ard

CIDE DICTIONARY

haphazard, n. [Hap + hazard.].

 Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.  [1913 Webster]
"We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust."  [1913 Webster]

haphazard, a. 

 Determined by chance, whimsy, or guesswork; unplanned; aimless; random; -- used mostly of human actions.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

haphazard, adj. & adv.
--adj. done etc. by chance; random.
--adv. at random.

Derivative

haphazardly adv. haphazardness n.

Etymology

HAP + HAZARD

THESAURUS

haphazard

accidental, accidentally, ad-lib, aimless, aimlessly, amorphous, any which way, anyhow, anywise, around, at random, botched, bungling, capricious, careless, carelessly, casual, casually, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, causeless, chance-medley, clumsy, deficient, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, driftless, dysteleological, erratic, extemporaneous, extemporized, fitful, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, half-assed, haphazardly, hasty, helter-skelter, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, immethodical, impromptu, improvised, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, inexplicable, irregular, makeshift, meaningless, messy, mindless, misshapen, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless, potluck, precipitate, promiscuous, promiscuously, purposeless, random, random shot, randomly, rough-and-ready, senseless, shapeless, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, snap, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, systemless, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, tripped up, unaccountable, unarranged, unbegun, unclassified, unconcocted, unconsidered, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, undirected, ungraded, unhatched, unjoined, unmade, unmanufactured, unmethodical, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unsorted, unstudied, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untidy, ununiform, vague, wandering

ROGET THESAURUS

haphazard

Chance

N chance, lot, fate, luck, good luck, mascot, speculation, venture, stake, game of chance, mere shot, random shot, blind bargain, leap in the dark, pig in a poke, fluke, potluck, faro bank, flyer, limit, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, drawing lots, sortilegy, sortition, sortes, sortes Virgilianae, rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice, wager, bet, betting, gambling, the turf, gaming house, gambling house, betting house, bucket shop, gambling joint, totalizator, totalizer, hell, betting ring, dice, dice box, gambler, gamester, man of the turf, adventurer, dicer, fortuitous, unintentional, unintended, accidental, not meant, undesigned, purposed, unpremeditated, unforeseen, uncontemplated, never thought of, random, indiscriminate, promiscuous, undirected, aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless, without purpose, possible, unforeseeable, unpredictable, chancy, risky, speculative, dicey, randomly, by chance, fortuitously, unpredictably, unforeseeably, casually, unintentionally, unwittingly, en passant, by the way, incidentally, as it may happen, at random, at a venture, at haphazard, acierta errando, dextro tempore, fearful concatenation of circumstances, fortuitous combination of circumstances, le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespo, the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances, the fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms, God does not play dice with the universe, chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit, fate, equal chance, lottery, tombola, toss up, turn of the table, turn of the cards, hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate, cast of the dice, throw of the dice, heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune, sortes, sortes Virgilianae, probability, possibility, odds, long odds, run of luck, accidentalness, main chance, odds on, favorable odds, contingency, dependence (uncertainty), situation (circumstance), statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances, bookmaking, assurance, speculation, gaming, casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate, random, statistical, possible, unintentional, by chance, accidentally, by accident, casually, perchance, for aught one knows, as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it, as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen, as the case may be, grasps the skirts of happy chance, the accident of an accident, There but for the grace of God go I.