Haphazard

Definitions: Haphazard

Haphazard

Adjective

1. Dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss".

2. Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship".

Adverb

1. Without care; in a slapdash manner; "the Prime Minister was wearing a gray suit and a white shirt with a soft collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard".

Date "haphazard" was first used: 1573. (references)

Note: Haphazard \Hap"haz`ard\, noun. [Hap hazard.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Haphazard

Synonyms: hit-or-miss (adj), slapdash (adj), slipshod (adj), sloppy (adj), haphazardly (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Chance 2	Noun: chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate; (necessity); 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.
Intention	En passant, by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random, at a venture, at haphazard.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Haphazard

English words defined with "haphazard": assorted ♦ discontinuous ♦ hit-or-miss ♦ miscellaneous, mixed, motley ♦ noncontinuous ♦ orderly ♦ randomisation, randomization ♦ scatter, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, spread, sundry, systematic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "haphazard": gophering. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Cook's Tour: A Haphazard Journey from Guangzhou to Dublin and Back Again (reference) Haphazard Reality (reference) Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science (reference) International Economic Sanctions : Improving the Haphazard U.S. Legal Regime (reference) Mountaintops and Molehills: Essays in Haphazard Theology (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He has too much real feeling to address any woman on the haphazard of selfish passion.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He went forward at haphazard.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		That is to say, it plans to replace haphazard development with "smart growth. (references)
Economic History	Azerbaijan	The Azerbaijani legal system does not yet contain a transparent body of commercial law, and implementation of court decisions is haphazard at best. (references)
Worker Rights	Nepal	While the Government has promulgated a "National Plan of Action" to combat trafficking, its implementation has been haphazard. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Haphazard" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Haphazard" is used about 272 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	272	17,812

Expressions using "haphazard": at haphazard ♦ by haphazard ♦ haphazard attempt ♦ in a haphazard way. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "haphazard": haphazard-looking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "haphazard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kuturu (at random, haphazardly, hit or miss), i rastit (adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, incident, incidental, makeshift, occasional, odd, passing, random, scratch, stray, transient). (various references)

Arabic		‏مصادفة (accident, accidental, by chance, chance, coincidence, fortuitously, fortuity, hazard, occurrence), ‏صدفة (accident, accidentally, at a venture, chance, coincidence, contingency, happening, incidentally, scallop, seashell, shell), ‏إتفاقى, ‏بدون تنظيم (loose). (various references)

Bulgarian		случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, facultative, fortuitous, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), чиста случайност, както дойде (helter-skelter, in a happy-go-lucky way, slapdash). (various references)

Chinese		随便 (offhandedly). (various references)

Czech		namátkový (random), nahodilý (circumstantial, occasional), náhodný (accidental, adventitious, arbitrary, casual, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, hit or miss, incidental, passing, random, stray). (various references)

Danish		planloes byspredning (haphazard building development, haphazard urbanization, sporadic building development, uncontrolled urban growth, unorganized urban growth). (various references)

Dutch		sporadische stadsontwikkeling (haphazard building development, sporadic building development), ongeordende verstedelijking (haphazard urbanization, uncontrolled urban growth, unorganized urban growth), lukraak getrokken steekproef (haphazard sample). (various references)

Farsi		اتفاقی (Accident, Casual, Chance, Chanceful, Chancy, Chromatic), اتفاقا (Peradventure, Perchance, Perhaps), برحسب تصادف . (various references)

Finnish		ylimalkainen (approximate, casual, general, rough), umpimähkäinen (made at random, random, rough), sattumanvarainen (accidental, aleatory, fortuitous). (various references)

French		au petit bonheur, au hasard (haphazardly). (various references)

German		zufällig (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, by any chance, by chance, by hazard, casual, casually, chance, coincidental, coincidentally, fortuitous, fortuitously, incidental, incidentally, on occasion, perchance, perchancely, random, stochastic), willkürlich (arbitrarily, arbitrary, autocratic, autocratical, highhanded, indiscriminate, indiscriminately, random, voluntary), planlos (aimless, desultory, haphazardly, planless, random, unmethodical, unsystematic, unsystematically). (various references)

Greek		σύμπτωση (breakdown, chance, coincidence, collapse, concurrence, contingency, fortuity, incident, overlap, overlapping, register), συμπτωματικόσ (coincidental, incidental, symptomatic), τυχαίοσ (accidental, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, incidental, occasional, random, scratch, stray). (various references)

Hebrew		מקרי (accidental, casual, chance, contingent, fortuitous, incidental, occasional, random, stray), אקראי (chance, incident, occasion). (various references)

Hungarian		véletlen (accidental, adventitious, casual, chance, coincidence, contingent, fortuitous, fortune, hap, happenstance, hazard, incidental, luck, occasional, promiscuous, random, unwitting), esetleges (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, contingent, fortuitous, incidental, occurrent, promiscuous). (various references)

Indonesian		serampangan (heady), awut-awutan (chaotic, tangled, tousled). (various references)

Italian		puro caso, fortuito (accidental, casual, chance, chanceful, fortuitous, incidental, random, stray), casualmente (accidentally, by chance, casually, coincidently, incidentally, occasionally), casuale (accidental, casual, chance, coincidental, factitive, fortuitous, incidental, odd, passing, random, stray), caso (accidence, accident, affair, alternative, case, chance, connection, connexion, event, hazard, incident, instance, matter, occasion, occurrence, possibility, random, surface case), a caso (by, by accident, by chance), a casaccio (at random). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		行き�"たりばったり , 無計�"� (lacking a plan), 出鱈目 (irresponsible utterance, nonsense, nonsensical, random, unsystematic), � ��"たり (playing to the gallery). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ばあたり (playing to the gallery), でたらめ (irresponsible utterance, nonsense, nonsensical, random, unsystematic), むけいかく (lacking a plan), ゆきあたりばったり. (various references)

Manx		neureilt (abnormal). (various references)

Norwegian		tilfeldig (casual, fortuitous, incidental). (various references)

Pig Latin		aphazardhay.(various references)

Portuguese		sorte (chance, destiny, die, dole, draw, fated, fluke, fortune, hap, happiness, hazard, hit, lot, lottery, luck, prise, prize, sort, speed, star, swat), coberta (bedspread, blanket, cap, clothing, counterpane, covering, coverlid, deck, shroud, slip), casualmente (anyhow), casual (blind, bye, casual, chance, flume, fortuity, incidental, occasional, odd, random, sporadic, undesigned), acidental (accidental, adventitious, bye, casual, chance, contingent, incidental, occasional, odd, random, sporadic, undesigned), acaso (accidence, accident, case, chance, fortuity, hap, hazard, lottery ticket, luck, maybe, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly, random, venture), a esmo (at random, randomised, randomized). (various references)

Romanian		ocazional (accidental, casual, casually, circumstantial, fugitive, incidental, infrequent, occasional, occasionally), întâmplãtor (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, contingent, facultative, fortuitous, incidentally, occasional, occurrent, odd, random, transient). (various references)

Russian		случайный (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, arbitrary, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extemporaneous, extemporary, fortuitous, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, incidental, jobbing, lucky, occasional, odd, passing, promiscuous, punative, random, spurious, stray). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		slučajno (accidentally, chance: by chance, fortuitously, haphazardly, incidentally), slučajan (accidental, adventitious, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, incidental, random, unexpected, unintentional). (various references)

Spanish		de oeste (westerly), de cualquier modo (anyhow, anyway, anywise, higgledy-piggledy, in any event), al azar (at random, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, promiscuous, randomly), accidental (accidental, catastrophic, incidental), a la buena de dios (higgledy-piggledy). (various references)

Swedish		på måfå (at random). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งเกิ�"ชึ้นโ�"ยไม่ไ�"้ตั้งใจ (haphazardly). (various references)

Turkish		rasgele (aimlessly, at a venture, at haphazard, at random, by chance, desultory, freehand, haphazardly, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, indiscriminate, offhand, promiscuous, random, scratch, stray, wild), gelişigüzel (at haphazard, at random, by chance, by fits and starts, casual, cursory, desultory, excursive, go-as-you-please, helter-skelter, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, indiscriminate, promiscuous, random, scratch, scratchy), şans eseri (fluke, incidentally, perchance). (various references)

Ukranian		випадковість (accident, accidental, chance, contingency, eventuality, fortuity, lottery), випадково (accidentally, adventitiously, by accident, by chance, casually, circumstantiality, fortuitously, haphazardly, incidentally, occasionally, perchance, promiscuously), випадковий (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, facultative, fortuitous, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated), необдуманий (ill-considered), навмання (at a venture, at random, haphazardly, hit or miss, hobnob), безсистемний (helter-skelter). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tình cờ (contingency, fortuity), sự ngẫu nhiên (contingency), sự may rủi (chance, peradventure). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "haphazard": haphazardly, haphazardness, haphazardnesses, haphazardries, haphazardry, haphazards. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Haphazard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haphasard, haphazared, haphazerd, haphazzard, haphhazard. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "haphazard" (pronounced hapha"zerd)
5	-h a" z er d	biohazard, hazard.
3	-z er d	blizzard, buzzard, gizzard, Izzard, lizard, wizard.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-h-h-p-r-z"
	-3 letters: hazard, pardah.
	-5 letters: haar, haha, hard, harp, para, pard.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-h-h-p-r-z"
	+1 letter: haphazards.
	+2 letters: haphazardly, haphazardry.
	+4 letters: haphazardness, haphazardries.
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