hit-or-miss

Synonyms

aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, desultory, erratic, haphazard, helter-skelter, random, scattered, slapdash, stray;

Antonyms

methodical (also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized;

Near Antonyms

established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steady;

constant, continuous, even;

arranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, planned;

aware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful (or wilful);

Related Words

accidental, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, fluky (also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, unconsidered, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated;

scattershot, shotgun;

irregular, odd, sporadic, spot;

directionless, objectless, purposeless;

indiscriminate, unsystematic;

undirected;

disorderly, disorganized;

undiscriminating, unselective;

Synonyms

aimlessly, anyhow, anyway, anywise, desultorily, erratically, haphazard, haphazardly, helter-skelter, irregularly, randomly, willy-nilly;

Antonyms

methodically, systematically;

Near Antonyms

carefully, formally, gingerly, meticulously, orderly, punctiliously;

deliberately, intentionally, purposefully, purposely;

Related Words

arbitrarily, capriciously, carelessly, casually, indiscriminately, informally, offhand, offhandedly, promiscuously, whimsically;

accidentally, fortuitously, inadvertently, unconsciously, unintentionally, unwittingly;

disconnectedly, disjointedly, fitfully, intermittently, spottily, unpredictably;

higgledy-piggledy, topsy-turvy;

Phrases

at random;