every which way

1. 1.

   in a random manner

   “the houses were randomly scattered”

   “bullets were fired into the crowd at random”

   Synonymsrandomlyindiscriminatelyhaphazardlywilly-nillyarbitrarilyat random
2. 2.

   haphazardly

   “the books were piled up helter-skelter”

   Synonymshelter-skelter

Questions about every which way

What does every which way mean?

every which way means "in a random manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for every which way?

Close synonyms include randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy-nilly, arbitrarily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is every which way a common word?

every which way is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.