English
Etymology
From haphazard + -ly.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /hæpˈhæzədli/
- (US) IPA(key): /hæpˈhæzɚdli/, /hæfˈhæzɚdli/
Adverb
haphazardly (comparative more haphazardly, superlative most haphazardly)
- In a haphazard manner; in a random, chaotic, and incomplete manner.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:Sorcery is not the exclusive prerogative of the fetish-man, but is practised haphazardly by anyone who wishes to cast a spell upon another.
2020 November 22, Jan Wolfe, Tom Hals, quoting Matthew Brann, “U.S. judge calls Trump claim challenging Biden win in Pennsylvania 'Frankenstein's Monster'”, in Reuters[1], retrieved 29 November 2020:“This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together,” wrote Brann.
Synonyms
Translations
in a haphazard manner
- Azerbaijani: tezbazar
- Catalan: a tort i a dret, a la babalà (ca)
- Dutch: om het even wat
- Esperanto: kiel ajn
- Finnish: sattumanvaraisesti (fi), umpimähkään (fi)
- French: n'importe comment (fr), au petit bonheur (fr)
- Galician: ao azar m, a torto e a dereito, de calquera xeito
- German: planlos (de), wahllos (de), willkürlich (de), zufällig (de)
- Greek: όπως όπως (ópos ópos)
- Italian: a caso (it)
- Norwegian: tilfeldig (no), tilfeldigvis
- Polish: na chybił trafił (pl), chaotycznie (pl)
- Portuguese: atabalhoadamente (pt)
- Spanish: a diestro y siniestro (es), a la remanguillé, a tontas y a locas, a salto de mata (es), de cualquier modo, sin ton ni son, sin son, sin ton y sin son, a diestra y siniestra (es)
- Swedish: händelsevis (sv), tillfällig (sv), slumpmässig (sv)
- Thai: สุ่มสี่สุ่มห้า (th)
- Turkish: gelişigüzel (tr), ölçüsüz (tr), plânsız (tr), rasgele (tr), rastgele (tr), tesâdüfen (tr)
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