All haphazard synonyms
hapΒ·hazΒ·ard
H h adj haphazard
- aimless β A person or activity that is aimless has no clear purpose or plan.
- offhand β cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- random β proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- disorganized β functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- casual β If you are casual, you are, or you pretend to be, relaxed and not very concerned about what is happening or what you are doing.
- careless β If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
- helter-skelter β in headlong and disorderly haste: The children ran helter-skelter all over the house.
- desultory β Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- arbitrary β If you describe an action, rule, or decision as arbitrary, you think that it is not based on any principle, plan, or system. It often seems unfair because of this.
- slapdash β in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
- indiscriminate β not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- uncoordinated β of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- accidental β An accidental event happens by chance or as the result of an accident, and is not deliberately intended.
- chance β If there is a chance of something happening, it is possible that it will happen.
- devil-may-care β If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
- disorderly β characterized by disorder; irregular; untidy; confused: a disorderly desk.
- fluke β Unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck.
- hit-or-miss β careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- incidental β happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
- irregular β without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- loose β free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- purposeless β having no purpose or apparent meaning.
adjective haphazard
- chaotic β Something that is chaotic is in a state of complete disorder and confusion.
- disorganised β Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
- messy β characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: a messy room.
- jumbled β to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order: You've jumbled up all the cards.
- all over the place β If something is happening all over the place, it is happening in many different places.
- nonselective β having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- unplanned β a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- erratic β Not even or regular in pattern or movement; unpredictable.
- designless β without a design, unplanned
noun haphazard
- happenchance β happenstance.
- heads or tails β a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- tossup β the tossing of a coin to decide something by its fall.
- luck out β the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- peradventure β chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
- in the cards β a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3β³ Γ 5β³ file card; a membership card.
- toss up β to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.
- hap β Benedict, 1741β1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
adverb haphazard
- hurriedly β moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- unmindful β not mindful; unaware; heedless; forgetful; careless; neglectful: unmindful of obligations.
- anyhow β Anyhow means the same as anyway.
- at random β If you choose people or things at random, you do not use any particular method, so they all have an equal chance of being chosen.
- incontinently β immediately; at once; straightaway.
- at any rate β You use at any rate to indicate that what you have just said might be incorrect or unclear in some way, and that you are now being more precise.
- anywise β in any way or manner; at all
- in any case β an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
- randomly β proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- incautious β not cautious; careless; reckless; heedless.