Usually means: Sometimes successful, sometimes unsuccessful.
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  1. hit-or-miss: Merriam-Webster
  2. hit-or-miss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hit-or-miss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hit-or-miss: Vocabulary.com
  5. hit-or-miss: Wordnik
  6. hit-or-miss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hit-or-miss: Wiktionary
  8. hit-or-miss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hit-or-miss: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hit-or-miss: Dictionary.com
  11. hit-or-miss: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. hit-or-miss: Rhymezone
  13. hit-or-miss: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hit-or-miss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hit-or-miss: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hit-or-miss: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  (now chiefly US) Inconsistent, unpredictable, erratic; sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing with no apparent pattern.

Similar:
haphazard, random, hit-and-miss, wide of the mark, misflung, mischanceful, hair-trigger, bumbling, jackleg, inexact, more...

Opposite:
precise, accurate, exact

Types:
random, arbitrary, chance, fortuitous, unpredictable, incalculable, indeterminate, more...

Phrases:
hit-or-miss transform, more...

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Similar:
haphazard, random, hit-and-miss, wide of the mark, misflung, mischanceful, hair-trigger, bumbling, jackleg, inexact, more...

Opposite:
precise, accurate, exact

Types:
random, arbitrary, chance, fortuitous, unpredictable, incalculable, indeterminate, more...

Phrases:
hit-or-miss transform, more...



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