[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

haphazard \hap"haz`ard\ ha^p"ha^z`~erd or
   ha^p`ha^z"~erd, n. hap + hazard.
   extra hazard; chance; accident; random.
   1913 webster

         we take our principles at haphazard, upon trust.
                                                  --locke.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

haphazard \hap"haz`ard\ ha^p"ha^z`~erd or
   ha^p`ha^z"~erd, a.
   determined by chance, whimsy, or guesswork; unplanned;
   aimless; random; -- used mostly of human actions.
   pjc

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

haphazard
     adj 1: dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan
            of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss" syn:
             hit-or-miss
     2: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
        record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
        "sloppy workmanship" syn: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
     adv : without care; in a slapdash manner; "the prime minister was
           wearing a gray suit and a white shirt with a soft
           collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar
           stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard"
           syn: haphazardly
see also:
hit-or-miss slapdash slipshod sloppy haphazardly 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

125 moby thesaurus words for "haphazard":
   accidental, accidentally, ad-lib, aimless, aimlessly, amorphous,
   any which way, anyhow, anywise, around, at random, botched,
   bungling, capricious, careless, carelessly, casual, casually,
   caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, causeless,
   chance-medley, clumsy, deficient, designless, desultory,
   disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed,
   disproportionate, driftless, dysteleological, erratic,
   extemporaneous, extemporized, fitful, formless, frivolous,
   gratuitous, half-assed, haphazardly, hasty, helter-skelter,
   hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, immethodical, impromptu, improvised,
   inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, inexplicable, irregular,
   makeshift, meaningless, messy, mindless, misshapen, nonsymmetrical,
   nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless, potluck,
   precipitate, promiscuous, promiscuously, purposeless, random,
   random shot, randomly, rough-and-ready, senseless, shapeless,
   slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, snap, spasmodic,
   sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, systemless,
   taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, tripped up,
   unaccountable, unarranged, unbegun, unclassified, unconcocted,
   unconsidered, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, undirected,
   ungraded, unhatched, unjoined, unmade, unmanufactured,
   unmethodical, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unplanned,
   unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unsorted, unstudied,
   unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untidy, ununiform, vague, wandering

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