Usually means: Random, disorganized, without definite plan.
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  1. haphazard: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. haphazard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haphazard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. haphazard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. haphazard: Vocabulary.com
  6. Haphazard, haphazard: Wordnik
  7. haphazard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. haphazard: Wiktionary
  9. haphazard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. haphazard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. haphazard: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Haphazard, haphazard: Dictionary.com
  13. haphazard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. haphazard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Haphazard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Haphazard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. haphazard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. haphazard: Rhymezone
  19. haphazard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. haphazard: Free Dictionary
  21. haphazard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Haphazard: The Word Detective
  23. haphazard: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. haphazard: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. haphazard: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Haphazard: MedFriendly Glossary
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  1. haphazard: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent.
▸ noun:  Simple chance, a random accident, luck.
▸ adverb:  Haphazardly.

Similar:
random, careless, hit-or-miss, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, unhaphazard, erratic, unorderly, unsteady, more...

Opposite:
methodical, systematic, orderly, regular

Types:
random, unsystematic, unplanned, disorderly, unmethodical, unarranged, more...

Phrases:
haphazard and messy, not haphazard, opposite of haphazard, more...

Adjectives:
mere, best, own, blind, little, pure, same, old, first, unintelligent, few
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Similar:
random, careless, hit-or-miss, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, unhaphazard, erratic, unorderly, unsteady, more...

Opposite:
methodical, systematic, orderly, regular

Types:
random, unsystematic, unplanned, disorderly, unmethodical, unarranged, more...

Phrases:
haphazard and messy, not haphazard, opposite of haphazard, more...

Adjectives:
mere, best, own, blind, little, pure, same, old, first, unintelligent, few



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