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catch-as-catch-can

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of catch-as-catch-can

lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern

we're always having drop-in guests at our beachfront cottage, and sleeping arrangements tend to be catch-as-catch-can

Synonyms of catch-as-catch-can

aimless, arbitrary, desultory, erratic, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, random, scattered, slapdash, stray

Words Related to catch-as-catch-can

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

disorderly, disorganized

undiscriminating, unselective

Near Antonyms of catch-as-catch-can

established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steady

constant, continuous, even

arranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, planned

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

Antonyms of catch-as-catch-can

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

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