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not having anobviousorderorplan: 无秩序的，无计划的，随意的Hetackledtheproblemin atypicallyhaphazardmanner.像往常一样，他处理这个问题时也很没有章法。 Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and exampleshappening by chance with no cause or reason - randomIt was a random encounter between two long-lost friends.
- chanceA chance meeting brought them back together.
- arbitraryIt seems like the decision to cancel such a successful TV programme was completely arbitrary.
- haphazardHer cabinets were stuffed with a haphazard jumble of books, clothes, tins of soup, and papers.
- coincidentalAny similarity between the characters in this book and real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
- inadvertentA good editor will catch and correct all inadvertent typos in a text.
See more results » SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesChance and randomness - accident
- aleatory
- arbitrarily
- arbitrariness
- arbitrary
- even-money
- fluke
- fluky
- fortuitous
- fortuitously
- luck
- luck intosomething
- more by accident than designidiom
- more by luck than judgmentidiom
- non-purposive
- randomized
- randomly
- randomness
- serendipitous
- stumble intosomething
See more results » haphazard| American Dictionarylackingorderorpurpose; notplanned: Haphazard record-keeping made itdifficultfor theagencytokeeptrackofitsclients. Examplesofhaphazardhaphazard This has proved possible in the past, but on a somewhathaphazardbasis.From theCambridge English Corpus Ignoring them simply means that the unfolding of the composed space will be eitherhaphazardor, at worst, amorphous.From theCambridge English Corpus When we turn from galaxies to the distribution of galaxies, the distribution does not seem to exhibit design - it looks rather random andhaphazard.From theCambridge English Corpus Rents collapsed, rent collection washaphazard, neglect to pay was rampant, urban cash circulation declined, capital accumulation stagnated and investment was severely limited.From theCambridge English Corpus But the most serious problems in the book are the omissions and thehaphazardcitations.From theCambridge English Corpus Whereas doctors had a standard calculation chart for physical injuries, the evaluation of psychological disability remainedhaphazardand subjective.From theCambridge English Corpus We have to treat other people as broadly rational, for if they were not, then their reactions would behaphazardand unpredictable.From theCambridge English Corpus The allegations against her seem too extreme, and the choice of targets toohaphazardto justify such a conclusion.From theCambridge English Corpus This is, in our opinion, linguisticallyhaphazardand risky.From theCambridge English Corpus We would perhaps expect no less in a situation where practices were extra-legal, but the impact ofhaphazardaccounting is potentially profound.From theCambridge English Corpus However,haphazardprivatisation may lead to a situation where parastatal inefficiencies are replaced with private sector excesses.From theCambridge English Corpus In contrast, the sources upon which they drew for writing on animals were very different and were morehaphazardand irregular.From theCambridge English Corpus Political reform was enacted through ahaphazardprocess of compromise and confusion.From theCambridge English Corpus Other than this, there was nothing in hishaphazardinterventions to indicate any systematic grasp of or clear directives for coherent policy-making.From theCambridge English Corpus There was, however, a line between ahaphazard, absurd system and a bankrupt one.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |