adverb
1. in a random manner (Freq. 1)
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the houses were randomly scattered
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bullets were fired into the crowd at random
• Syn: ↑randomly, ↑indiscriminately, ↑willy-nilly, ↑arbitrarily, ↑at random, ↑every which way
• Derived from adjective: ↑haphazard, ↑indiscriminate (for: ↑indiscriminately), ↑random (for: ↑randomly)
2. without care; in a slapdash manner
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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
• Syn: ↑haphazard
Useful english dictionary. 2012.