haphazard

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   marked by great carelessness

   This is the most haphazard system of record keeping I've ever seen.

2. 2
   adj

   dependent upon or characterized by chance

   The thieves' haphazard plan landed them behind bars.

3. 3
   adj

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   adv

   Haphazardly.

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

6. 6
   adv

   without care

Etymology

From archaic hap (“chance, luck”) + hazard.