haphazard

1. 1.

   without care; in a slapdash manner

   “the Prime Minister was wearing a grey 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”

   Synonymshaphazardly

Questions about haphazard

What does haphazard mean?

haphazard means "dependent upon or characterized by chance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in haphazard?

haphazard has 3 syllables: ha-phaz-ard. The stress falls on "phaz". In IPA it is /hæpˈhæzɚd/.

What is another word for haphazard?

Close synonyms include hit-or-miss, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, haphazardly. 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 haphazard a common word?

haphazard is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with haphazard?

2 words rhyme with haphazard. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.