Definition of haphazard
(Entry 1 of 2)
: marked by lack of plan, order, or direction
a haphazard assemblage of furniture not … a collection of haphazard schemes, but rather the orderly component parts of a connected and logical whole— F. D. Roosevelt
haphazard
nounDefinition of haphazard (Entry 2 of 2)
: chance sense 1
this little remnant preserved by the haphazard of chance— Edith Hamilton take our principles at haphazard— John Locke
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The first known use of haphazard was in 1569
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