haphazardly
adverb
disapprovinguk/ˌhæpˈhæz.əd.li/us/ˌhæpˈhæz.ɚd.li/in a way that does not have anobviousorderorplan:
The newplanwasintroducedhaphazardly.
Shelters arescatteredhaphazardly about thedesert.
See
haphazard
- Pieces ofclothinghanghaphazardly on theradiators.
- If you justletyourlifego on haphazardly you never getanywhere.
- We have beenaccusedof being too process-oriented, but one of theproblemswe had in the past was that we did things haphazardly.
Chance 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