haphazardly
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6.1
- adverb
- /hæpˈhæzərdli/
:
al azar
- The toys were left haphazardly on the floor after the children finished playing.
- haphazardly arranged
- haphazardly chosen
- moving haphazardly
We always schedule in advance, so we don't watch the TV haphazardly or impromptu.
- We always schedule in advance, so we don't watch the TV haphazardly or impromptu.
- Sometimes you just want a simple, haphazardly made cup of coffee, and sometimes that's great.
- And I don't say that sort of haphazardly.
- I'm not saying it's not religion can't be, but it stumbles upon it like almost haphazardly.
- What you believe, you really in your heart, not you know, haphazardly, but in your heart you have to raise what you believe you're worth.
Examples
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I'm doing this a little haphazardly, just making sure it gets diffused.
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OK, I taped that piece of fabric up just very haphazardly just to get a feel for what it would look like.
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The property owners had rocks placed haphazardly along the beach in front of their threatened property.
Academic text (1991) -
Throughout the 1960s, many universities grew haphazardly, without any well-defined sense of direction.
Academic text (1996) -
Filthy clothes and furniture were strewn haphazardly in the front room.
Academic text (2006) -
Cars and pick-up trucks are haphazardly parked along a dirt road.
Fiction book (1998) -
Farm trucks were parked haphazardly in front of the Alamo-shaped facade of the cafe.
Fiction book (1993) -
Hundreds of large limestone blocks, numbered with red chalk, were haphazardly strewn about the site, ready to be moved.
Academic text (2003) -
We had been brought together haphazardly in the aftermath of the devastating genocide of Cambodia's Pol Pot regime.
Academic text (2014) -
I saw sleeping mats and bedding among other personal belongings stuffed haphazardly into the open crates.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
126
2.4
In a way that has no clear plan or order
44
2.7
By chance, without any plan or order
27
5.5
In a way that has no clear reason or plan
22
6.7
Doing things without careful choice or noticing differences
13
6.4
In a way that is not regular or easy to predict
12
4.9
In many different directions in a messy, random way
5
2.9
In a careless, untidy way that makes things messy
4
4.2
Happens at different times and not in a steady way
1
5.6
In a wild, disordered way
1
1.4
In a messy way that leaves food or paint everywhere
1
8.2
In a random, messy way without a plan
1
9.9
In a messy, mixed-up way with things in no order
1
3.4
In a messy way that is not neat
Without a plan or clear order
A way of acting that has no order or plan
In a way that has no clear order or plan
In a way that uses random chance to choose results
In a messy, disorganized way
In a messy, untidy way
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Haphazardly comes from two older parts: hap meaning 'chance', as seen in happen, and hazard meaning 'risk' or 'danger'. So to do something haphazardly is to act by 'chance' without a plan, which is why it now means 'at random'.