Exact Match:
- random
- lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; "a random choice"; "bombs fell at random"; "random movements"
- taken haphazardly; "a random choice"
Synonyms:
- accidental,
- adventitious,
- adventitiously,
- aimless,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphous,
- any which way,
- anyhow,
- anywise,
- arbitrarily,
- arbitrary,
- around,
- at random,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- by chance,
- capricious,
- casual,
- casually,
- causeless,
- chance,
- chance-medley,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- confused,
- designless,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- driftless,
- dysteleological,
- erratic,
- erratically,
- fitful,
- foggy,
- formless,
- fortuitous,
- fortuitously,
- frivolous,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- haphazardly,
- hazy,
- helter-skelter,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- immethodical,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incidental,
- incidentally,
- incoherent,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indefinitely,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- indiscriminately,
- indistinct,
- inexact,
- inexplicable,
- irregular,
- irregularly,
- lax,
- loose,
- meaningless,
- mindless,
- misshapen,
- nonspecific,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- obscure,
- occasional,
- occasionally,
- odd,
- orderless,
- planless,
- potluck,
- promiscuous,
- purposeless,
- random shot,
- randomly,
- senseless,
- serendipitous,
- serendipitously,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- stochastic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- stray,
- sweeping,
- systemless,
- unaccountable,
- unarranged,
- uncalculated,
- unclassified,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unmotivated,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unplain,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unpremeditatedly,
- unsorted,
- unspecific,
- unspecified,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- unsystematically,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- veiled,
- wandering
Related Words:
- anyhow
collapse - used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement; "Anyhow, he is dead now"; "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet"; "I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone"; "anyway, there is another factor to consider"; "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"; "in any event, the government faced a serious protest"; "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it"
- in any way whatsoever; "they came anyhow they could"; "get it done anyway you can" related words >
- airily,
- any old way,
- any which way,
- anyway,
- anywise,
- at all,
- at any rate,
- at random,
- bunglingly,
- by any means,
- carelessly,
- casually,
- clumsily,
- cursorily,
- disregardfully,
- forgetfully,
- haphazard,
- haphazardly,
- heedlessly,
- helter-skelter,
- hit and miss,
- hit or miss,
- however,
- in any case,
- in any event,
- in any way,
- inattentively,
- inconsiderately,
- irregardless,
- messily,
- nevertheless,
- nohow,
- nonetheless,
- offhand,
- offhandedly,
- once over lightly,
- perfunctorily,
- promiscuously,
- random,
- randomly,
- recklessly,
- regardless,
- regardlessly,
- slapdash,
- sloppily,
- tactlessly,
- thoughtlessly,
- unguardedly,
- unheedfully,
- unheedingly,
- unmindfully,
- unsolicitously,
- unthinkingly,
- unvigilantly,
- unwarily
- aimlessly,
- any which way,
- anyhow,
- anywise,
- around,
- at haphazard,
- at hazard,
- at intervals,
- at irregular intervals,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by chance,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- carelessly,
- casually,
- desultorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- dysteleologically,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- fitfully,
- haltingly,
- haphazard,
- haphazardly,
- helter-skelter,
- hit or miss,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inconstantly,
- indiscriminately,
- inexplicably,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- jerkily,
- lurchingly,
- nonuniformly,
- off and on,
- patchily,
- promiscuously,
- purposelessly,
- random,
- randomly,
- roughly,
- sloppily,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- stochastically,
- unaccountably,
- uncertainly,
- unevenly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- variably,
- whimsically,
- wobblingly
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- blind bargain,
- break,
- casualness,
- chance,
- chance at odds,
- destiny,
- fate,
- flukiness,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- gamble,
- gambling chance,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- heedless hap,
- how they fall,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- law of averages,
- lot,
- luck,
- matter of chance,
- moira,
- opportunity,
- potluck,
- potshot,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- random sample,
- random shot,
- risk,
- run of luck,
- serendipity,
- sporting chance,
- statistical probability,
- the breaks,
- theory of probability,
- toss,
- toss-up,
- touch and go,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- whatever comes
- around
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- in circumference; "the trunk is ten feet around"; "the pond is two miles around"
- by a circular or circuitous route; "He came all the way around the base"; "the road goes around the pond"
- in a circle or circular motion; "The wheels are spinning around"
- to a particular destination either specified or understood; "she came around to see me"; "I invited them around for supper" related words >
- about,
- again,
- alive,
- all about,
- all over,
- all round,
- all through,
- almost,
- along toward,
- anticlockwise,
- any which way,
- anyhow,
- anywise,
- approximately,
- at close quarters,
- at hand,
- at random,
- back,
- backward,
- by,
- by way of,
- circa,
- clockwise,
- close,
- close about,
- close at hand,
- close by,
- close upon,
- counterclockwise,
- encircling,
- enclosing,
- encompassing,
- enveloping,
- every which way,
- everywhence,
- everywhere,
- everywhither,
- existent,
- existing,
- far and wide,
- fast by,
- from every quarter,
- haphazard,
- haphazardly,
- hard,
- hard by,
- head over heels,
- heels over head,
- helter-skelter,
- here and there,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- in a circle,
- in a spin,
- in a whirl,
- in all directions,
- in circles,
- in every quarter,
- in reverse,
- in spitting distance,
- in the neighborhood,
- in the vicinity,
- just about,
- living,
- near,
- near at hand,
- near enough to,
- near upon,
- nearabout,
- nearabouts,
- nearby,
- nearly,
- nigh,
- nigh about,
- not far,
- on all sides,
- on every side,
- only a step,
- over,
- passing by,
- passing through,
- random,
- randomly,
- roughly,
- round,
- round about,
- round and round,
- somewhere about,
- surrounding,
- thereabout,
- thereabouts,
- through,
- throughout,
- upwards of,
- via,
- widdershins,
- within call,
- within earshot,
- within hearing,
- within reach
- haphazard
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- marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
- dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"
- 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" related words >
- 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
- about
collapse
- in the area or vicinity; "a few spectators standing about"; "hanging around"; "waited around for the next flight"
- all around or on all sides; "dirty clothes lying around (or about)"; "let's look about for help"; "There were trees growing all around"; "she looked around her"
- in or to a reversed position or direction; "about face"; "suddenly she turned around"
- to or among many different places or in no particular direction; "wandering about with no place to go"; "people were rushing about"; "news gets around (or about)"; "traveled around in Asia"; "he needs advice from someone who's been around"; "she sleeps around"
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees"
- in rotation or succession; "turn about is fair play" related words >
- again,
- aimlessly,
- all but,
- all over,
- all round,
- almost,
- along toward,
- alongside,
- anent,
- any which way,
- anyhow,
- anywise,
- approximately,
- apropos,
- apropos of,
- around,
- as for,
- as regards,
- as respects,
- as to,
- at close quarters,
- at hand,
- at random,
- back,
- back and forth,
- backward,
- beside,
- carelessly,
- casually,
- circa,
- circuitously,
- close,
- close about,
- close at hand,
- close by,
- close to,
- close upon,
- concerning,
- encircling,
- everywhere,
- far and wide,
- fast by,
- haphazard,
- haphazardly,
- hard,
- hard by,
- helter-skelter,
- here and there,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- in all directions,
- in connection with,
- in point of,
- in re,
- in reference to,
- in regard to,
- in relation to,
- in relation with,
- in respect to,
- in reverse,
- in spitting distance,
- in the air,
- in the neighborhood,
- in the vicinity,
- involving,
- just about,
- more or less,
- most,
- much,
- near,
- near at hand,
- near enough to,
- near upon,
- nearabout,
- nearabouts,
- nearby,
- nearly,
- nigh,
- nigh about,
- not far,
- not far from,
- of,
- on,
- on every side,
- only a step,
- pertaining to,
- pertinent to,
- plus ou moins,
- practically,
- prevalent,
- random,
- randomly,
- re,
- referring to,
- regarding,
- relating to,
- relative to,
- respecting,
- roughly,
- round,
- round about,
- some,
- somewhere about,
- speaking of,
- surrounding,
- thereabout,
- thereabouts,
- through,
- throughout,
- to and fro,
- touching,
- up and down,
- upon,
- upwards of,
- well-nigh,
- with,
- with regard to,
- with respect to,
- within call,
- within earshot,
- within hearing,
- within reach
- by chance
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- without advance planning; "they met accidentally" related words >
- accidentally,
- as it chanced,
- at haphazard,
- at intervals,
- at random,
- by a fluke,
- by accident,
- by fits,
- by good fortune,
- by hazard,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- carelessly,
- casually,
- desultorily,
- erratically,
- fitfully,
- for some reason,
- fortuitously,
- haphazardly,
- hit or miss,
- in snatches,
- in some way,
- in spots,
- incidentally,
- indiscriminately,
- irregularly,
- perchance,
- promiscuously,
- randomly,
- sloppily,
- somehow,
- somehow or other,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unsystematically
- causeless
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- having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle"; "fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times"
- having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless, causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change" related words >
- accidental,
- adventitious,
- aimless,
- aleatory,
- casual,
- chance,
- chancy,
- contingent,
- designless,
- destinal,
- dicey,
- driftless,
- dysteleological,
- fatal,
- fatidic,
- fluky,
- fortuitous,
- haphazard,
- iffy,
- incidental,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- inexplicable,
- mindless,
- promiscuous,
- purposeless,
- random,
- risky,
- stochastic,
- stray,
- unaccountable,
- uncaused,
- undetermined,
- undirected,
- unexpected,
- unforeseeable,
- unforeseen,
- unlooked-for,
- unmotivated,
- unpredictable
- sector
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- measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end
- a particular aspect of life or activity; "he was helpless in an important sector of his life"
- a body of people who form part of society or economy; "the public sector"
- a portion of a military position
- the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
- a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle related words >
- adjunct,
- component,
- contingent,
- crescent,
- cross section,
- detachment,
- detail,
- district,
- division,
- dole,
- fraction,
- half circle,
- hemicycle,
- installment,
- item,
- parcel,
- part,
- particular,
- percentage,
- portion,
- precinct,
- quadrant,
- quarter,
- quota,
- random sample,
- remainder,
- sample,
- sampling,
- section,
- segment,
- semicircle,
- sextant,
- share,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- subspecies
- aimlessly
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- in an aimless manner; "he wandered around aimlessly" related words >
- anarchically,
- at haphazard,
- at hazard,
- at random,
- bootlessly,
- casually,
- chaotically,
- confusedly,
- dispersedly,
- dysteleologically,
- fecklessly,
- fruitlessly,
- futilely,
- haphazardly,
- indiscriminately,
- inexplicably,
- insignificantly,
- meaninglessly,
- needlessly,
- nonconnotatively,
- nondenotatively,
- nonsensically,
- planlessly,
- pointlessly,
- promiscuously,
- purposelessly,
- randomly,
- riotously,
- senselessly,
- stochastically,
- to little purpose,
- to no purpose,
- turbulently,
- unaccountably,
- unmeaningly,
- unnecessarily,
- unsignificantly,
- uselessly,
- vaguely,
- vainly,
- wanderingly
- inexplicable
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- incapable of being explained or accounted for; "inexplicable errors"; "left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons" related words >
- aimless,
- baffling,
- bewildering,
- casual,
- causeless,
- confounding,
- designless,
- driftless,
- dysteleological,
- enigmatic,
- enwrapped in mystery,
- haphazard,
- incomprehensible,
- indecipherable,
- indefinable,
- indescribable,
- indiscriminate,
- inextricable,
- inscrutable,
- insoluble,
- insolvable,
- mindless,
- mysterious,
- mystic,
- mystifying,
- odd,
- peculiar,
- perplexing,
- promiscuous,
- purposeless,
- puzzling,
- random,
- stochastic,
- strange,
- stray,
- unaccountable,
- undefinable,
- undirected,
- unexplainable,
- unfathomable,
- unintelligible,
- uninterpretable,
- unmotivated,
- unsolvable
- variably
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- with variation; in a variable manner or to a variable degree; "it will be variably cloudy" related words >
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- back and forth,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- changeably,
- desultorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- fitfully,
- haltingly,
- in and out,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inconstantly,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- jerkily,
- lurchingly,
- nonuniformly,
- off and on,
- on and off,
- patchily,
- roughly,
- round and round,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- to and fro,
- uncertainly,
- unevenly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadfastly,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- waveringly,
- whimsically,
- wobblingly
- jerkily
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- with jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat" related words >
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- desultorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- fitfully,
- flutteringly,
- haltingly,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inconstantly,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- lurchingly,
- nonuniformly,
- off and on,
- patchily,
- quakingly,
- quaveringly,
- quiveringly,
- roughly,
- saltatorily,
- shakily,
- shudderingly,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- tremblingly,
- tremulously,
- uncertainly,
- unevenly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- variably,
- waveringly,
- whimsically,
- wobblingly
- cross section
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- (physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles; measured in barns
- a sample meant to be representative of a whole population
- a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis related words >
- adjunct,
- chiasma,
- component,
- contingent,
- crossing,
- cruciation,
- decussation,
- detachment,
- detail,
- division,
- dole,
- embodiment,
- example,
- exponent,
- fraction,
- installment,
- intercrossing,
- intersecting,
- intersection,
- item,
- parcel,
- part,
- particular,
- percentage,
- portion,
- quadrant,
- quarter,
- quota,
- random sample,
- remainder,
- representation,
- representative,
- sample,
- sampling,
- section,
- sector,
- segment,
- share,
- specimen,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- subspecies,
- transection,
- transversion,
- traversal,
- type,
- typification
- best bet,
- blind bargain,
- chance at odds,
- favorable prospect,
- gambling chance,
- good chance,
- good opportunity,
- good possibility,
- likelihood,
- main chance,
- matter of chance,
- odds-on,
- odds-on chance,
- possibility,
- potluck,
- potshot,
- probability,
- random shot,
- sure bet,
- sure thing,
- toss,
- toss-up,
- touch and go,
- well-grounded hope
- aimless,
- amorphous,
- capricious,
- casual,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- erratic,
- fitful,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indiscriminate,
- irregular,
- meaningless,
- misshapen,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- orderless,
- promiscuous,
- random,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- systemless,
- unarranged,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unsorted,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- wandering
- ungraded
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- not arranged in order hierarchically related words >
- aimless,
- amorphous,
- capricious,
- casual,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- erratic,
- fitful,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indiscriminate,
- irregular,
- meaningless,
- misshapen,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- orderless,
- planless,
- promiscuous,
- random,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- systemless,
- unarranged,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unsorted,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- wandering
- blind bargain,
- borderline case,
- chance,
- chance at odds,
- contingency,
- double contingency,
- even break,
- even chance,
- fair shake,
- fifty-fifty,
- gamble,
- gambling chance,
- guess,
- half a chance,
- matter of chance,
- odds,
- open question,
- piece of guesswork,
- potluck,
- potshot,
- question,
- random shot,
- sight-unseen transaction,
- sporting chance,
- square odds,
- standoff,
- toss,
- touch and go,
- undecided issue,
- wager
- blind bargain,
- borderline case,
- chance,
- chance at odds,
- contingency,
- double contingency,
- even break,
- even chance,
- fair shake,
- fifty-fifty,
- gamble,
- gambling chance,
- guess,
- half a chance,
- matter of chance,
- odds,
- open question,
- piece of guesswork,
- potluck,
- potshot,
- question,
- random shot,
- sight-unseen transaction,
- sporting chance,
- square odds,
- standoff,
- toss,
- toss-up,
- undecided issue,
- wager
- bargain,
- blind bargain,
- borderline case,
- chance,
- chance at odds,
- contingency,
- deal,
- dicker,
- double contingency,
- gamble,
- gambling chance,
- guess,
- hard bargain,
- horse trade,
- matter of chance,
- open question,
- piece of guesswork,
- potluck,
- potshot,
- question,
- random shot,
- sight-unseen transaction,
- sporting chance,
- swap,
- toss,
- toss-up,
- touch and go,
- trade,
- trade-in,
- undecided issue,
- wager
- unintentional
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- not intentional; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked"
- without deliberate intent; "my heart with unwilled love grew warm"- George Macdonald related words >
- automatic,
- blind,
- casual,
- causeless,
- chance,
- compulsive,
- conditioned,
- forced,
- gut,
- haphazard,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- impulsive,
- inadvertent,
- indeliberate,
- instinctive,
- involuntary,
- mechanical,
- purposeless,
- random,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- snap,
- spontaneous,
- unadvised,
- unanticipated,
- uncalculated,
- unconscious,
- unconsidered,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- undevised,
- unexpected,
- unforeseen,
- unguarded,
- unguided,
- unintended,
- unlooked-for,
- unmeant,
- unmeditated,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprompted,
- unpurposed,
- unstudied,
- unthinking,
- unthought,
- unthought-of,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting
- dangerous
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- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"
- involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" related words >
- alarming,
- bad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- critical,
- dangersome,
- desultory,
- explosive,
- fell,
- fraught with danger,
- grievous,
- hairy,
- haphazard,
- harmful,
- hazardous,
- hit-or-miss,
- iffy,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- jeopardous,
- major,
- menacing,
- parlous,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- random,
- rickety,
- risky,
- serious,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- threatening,
- ticklish,
- treacherous,
- ugly,
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- unfaithworthy,
- unhealthy,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- wicked
- purposeless
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- not evidencing any purpose or goal related words >
- aimless,
- bootless,
- casual,
- causeless,
- designless,
- desultory,
- discursive,
- disorganized,
- driftless,
- dysteleological,
- empty,
- feckless,
- fustian,
- garbled,
- good-for-nothing,
- haphazard,
- hit-or-miss,
- importless,
- impotent,
- inane,
- indiscriminate,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inexplicable,
- insignificant,
- irregular,
- meaningless,
- mindless,
- no go,
- nonconnotative,
- nondenotative,
- nonsensical,
- null,
- of no use,
- phatic,
- pointless,
- promiscuous,
- purportless,
- rambling,
- random,
- scrambled,
- senseless,
- stochastic,
- stray,
- superfluous,
- unaccountable,
- unavailing,
- undirected,
- unhelpful,
- unmeaning,
- unmotivated,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unprofitable,
- unpurposed,
- unsignificant,
- useless,
- vacuous,
- wandering,
- worthless
- airily,
- any old way,
- any which way,
- anyhow,
- at haphazard,
- at intervals,
- at random,
- bunglingly,
- by chance,
- by fits,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- carelessly,
- casually,
- clumsily,
- cursorily,
- desultorily,
- disregardfully,
- erratically,
- experimentally,
- fitfully,
- forgetfully,
- haphazardly,
- heedlessly,
- helter-skelter,
- hit and miss,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inattentively,
- inconsiderately,
- indiscriminately,
- irregularly,
- messily,
- offhand,
- offhandedly,
- once over lightly,
- perfunctorily,
- promiscuously,
- randomly,
- recklessly,
- regardlessly,
- slapdash,
- sloppily,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- tactlessly,
- thoughtlessly,
- unguardedly,
- unheedfully,
- unheedingly,
- unmethodically,
- unmindfully,
- unsolicitously,
- unsystematically,
- unthinkingly,
- unvigilantly,
- unwarily
- nonspecific
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- not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides; "nonspecific enteritis" related words >
- abstract,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphous,
- bland,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- collective,
- confused,
- disordered,
- featureless,
- foggy,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- generalized,
- generic,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- inexact,
- lax,
- loose,
- nebulous,
- neutral,
- obscure,
- orderless,
- random,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- stochastic,
- sweeping,
- uncharacterized,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undifferentiated,
- unplain,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- veiled,
- wide
- law of averages
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- a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance related words >
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- break,
- casualness,
- chance,
- destiny,
- fate,
- flukiness,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- gamble,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- heedless hap,
- how they fall,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- lot,
- luck,
- moira,
- opportunity,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- random sample,
- risk,
- run of luck,
- serendipity,
- statistical probability,
- the breaks,
- theory of probability,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- whatever comes
- intermittently
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- in an intermittent manner; "intermittently we questioned the barometer" related words >
- at intervals,
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- at regular intervals,
- at stated times,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by skips,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- constantly,
- desultorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- every so often,
- fitfully,
- haltingly,
- haphazardly,
- here and there,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inconstantly,
- infrequently,
- irregularly,
- jerkily,
- like clockwork,
- lurchingly,
- methodically,
- nonuniformly,
- occasionally,
- off and on,
- patchily,
- per saltum,
- punctually,
- randomly,
- regularly,
- roughly,
- skippingly,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- steadily,
- systematically,
- uncertainly,
- unevenly,
- uniformly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- variably,
- whimsically,
- willy-nilly,
- wobblingly
- trial balloon
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- a balloon sent up to test air currents
- a test of public opinion related words >
- barometer,
- bone of contention,
- catechism,
- cross-interrogatory,
- cross-question,
- debating point,
- demand,
- feeler,
- inquiry,
- interrogation,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- issue,
- leader,
- leading question,
- moot point,
- pilot balloon,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- probe,
- problem,
- query,
- question,
- question at issue,
- question mark,
- quodlibet,
- random sample,
- sample,
- sound,
- sounder,
- straw vote,
- topic,
- trial,
- vexed question,
- weather vane,
- weathercock
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphic,
- amorphous,
- anarchic,
- baggy,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- characterless,
- confused,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- featureless,
- foggy,
- formless,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- inexact,
- inform,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lax,
- loose,
- lumpen,
- misty,
- nondescript,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- orderless,
- random,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- stochastic,
- sweeping,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unplain,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- veiled
- subgroup
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- (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group
- a distinct and often subordinate group within a group related words >
- adjunct,
- blood,
- bracket,
- branch,
- caste,
- category,
- clan,
- class,
- component,
- contingent,
- cross section,
- detachment,
- detail,
- division,
- dole,
- estate,
- fraction,
- grade,
- group,
- grouping,
- head,
- heading,
- installment,
- item,
- kin,
- label,
- level,
- order,
- parcel,
- part,
- particular,
- percentage,
- pigeonhole,
- portion,
- position,
- predicament,
- quadrant,
- quarter,
- quota,
- race,
- random sample,
- rank,
- rating,
- remainder,
- rubric,
- sample,
- sampling,
- section,
- sector,
- segment,
- sept,
- set,
- share,
- station,
- status,
- strain,
- stratum,
- subdivision,
- suborder,
- subspecies,
- title
- weathercock
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- weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster related words >
- April showers,
- Proteus,
- Vicar of Bray,
- anemograph,
- anemometer,
- anemometrograph,
- anemoscope,
- barometer,
- chameleon,
- cloud shapes,
- cock,
- feeler,
- formalist,
- kaleidoscope,
- mercury,
- moon,
- pilot balloon,
- probe,
- quicksilver,
- random sample,
- rolling stone,
- sample,
- shifting sands,
- sound,
- sounder,
- straw vote,
- temporizer,
- the weather,
- timepleaser,
- timeserver,
- trial balloon,
- trimmer,
- vane,
- water,
- weather vane,
- wheel of fortune,
- whirligig,
- wind cone,
- wind indicator,
- wind sock,
- wind vane,
- wind-speed indicator
- sounder
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- a device for making soundings related words >
- TelAutography,
- Teletype,
- Teletype network,
- Teletyping,
- barometer,
- closed-circuit telegraphy,
- code,
- duplex telegraphy,
- electricity,
- facsimile telegraph,
- feeler,
- interrupter,
- key,
- multiplex telegraphy,
- news ticker,
- pilot balloon,
- probe,
- quadruplex telegraphy,
- railroad telegraphy,
- random sample,
- receiver,
- sample,
- sender,
- simplex telegraphy,
- single-current telegraphy,
- sound,
- stock ticker,
- straw vote,
- submarine telegraphy,
- telegraphics,
- telegraphy,
- teleprinter,
- teletypewriter,
- teletypewriting,
- telex,
- ticker,
- transmitter,
- trial balloon,
- typotelegraph,
- typotelegraphy,
- weather vane,
- weathercock,
- wire service
- stochastic
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- being or having a random variable; "a stochastic variable"; "stochastic processes" related words >
- aimless,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphous,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- casual,
- causeless,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- confused,
- designless,
- disordered,
- driftless,
- dysteleological,
- foggy,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- haphazard,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- indistinct,
- inexact,
- inexplicable,
- lax,
- loose,
- mindless,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- orderless,
- promiscuous,
- purposeless,
- random,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- stray,
- sweeping,
- unaccountable,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undirected,
- unmotivated,
- unplain,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- veiled
- unsorted
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- not arranged according to size related words >
- aimless,
- amorphous,
- assorted,
- capricious,
- casual,
- crude,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- erratic,
- fitful,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- heterogeneous,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- impure,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indiscriminate,
- irregular,
- meaningless,
- misshapen,
- mixed,
- motley,
- multifarious,
- native,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- orderless,
- planless,
- promiscuous,
- random,
- raw,
- run-of-mine,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- systemless,
- unarranged,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- varied,
- wandering
- off and on
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- not regularly; "they phone each other off and on" related words >
- alternately,
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- back and forth,
- backward and forward,
- backwards and forwards,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by snatches,
- by turns,
- capriciously,
- changeably,
- desultorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- every other,
- fitfully,
- haltingly,
- hitch and hike,
- in and out,
- in rotation,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- in turns,
- inconstantly,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- jerkily,
- lurchingly,
- make and break,
- nonuniformly,
- on and off,
- patchily,
- reciprocally,
- ride and tie,
- roughly,
- round and round,
- seesaw,
- shuttlewise,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- to and fro,
- turn about,
- uncertainly,
- unevenly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadfastly,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- up and down,
- variably,
- waveringly,
- whimsically,
- wobblingly
- barometer
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- an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure related words >
- aerological instrument,
- aneroid barometer,
- aneroidograph,
- barograph,
- barometrograph,
- canon,
- check,
- criterion,
- degree,
- feeler,
- gauge,
- glass,
- graduated scale,
- hurricane-hunter aircraft,
- hygrometer,
- measure,
- model,
- norm,
- parameter,
- pattern,
- pilot balloon,
- probe,
- quantity,
- radiosonde,
- random sample,
- reading,
- readout,
- recording barometer,
- rule,
- sample,
- scale,
- sound,
- sounder,
- standard,
- straw vote,
- test,
- touchstone,
- trial balloon,
- type,
- vacuometer,
- value,
- weather balloon,
- weather instrument,
- weather satellite,
- weather vane,
- weathercock,
- weatherglass,
- yardstick
- irregularly
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- in an irregular manner; "the stomach mucosa was irregularly blackened"
- in an irregular manner; "her letters arrived irregularly"
- in an irregular manner; "the patient is breathing irregularly"
- having an irregular form; "irregularly shaped solids" related words >
- at haphazard,
- at intervals,
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by chance,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- carelessly,
- chaotically,
- choppily,
- desultorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- every which way,
- fitfully,
- haltingly,
- haphazardly,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hit or miss,
- impulsively,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- in the rough,
- inconsistently,
- inconstantly,
- indiscriminately,
- infrequently,
- intermittently,
- jaggedly,
- jerkily,
- lurchingly,
- nonuniformly,
- off and on,
- on,
- patchily,
- promiscuously,
- raggedly,
- randomly,
- rough,
- roughly,
- sloppily,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- uncertainly,
- uncommonly,
- unequally,
- unevenly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- ununiformly,
- variably,
- whimsically,
- wobblingly
- accessory,
- accidental,
- accompanying,
- additional,
- ado,
- adventitious,
- afloat,
- afoot,
- aleatory,
- auxiliary,
- behind the scenes,
- by-the-way,
- casual,
- causal,
- causative,
- ceremonial,
- circumstantial,
- conditional,
- constitutive,
- contingent,
- current,
- decisive,
- determinative,
- doing,
- effectual,
- etiological,
- eventuating,
- extra,
- few,
- formative,
- going on,
- happening,
- in hand,
- in the wind,
- incidental,
- inessential,
- infrequent,
- institutive,
- intermittent,
- irregular,
- nonessential,
- occurring,
- odd,
- off,
- on,
- on foot,
- ongoing,
- originative,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- part-time,
- particular,
- passing,
- periodic,
- pivotal,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- provisional,
- random,
- rare,
- resultant,
- ritual,
- scarce,
- seldom,
- side,
- spare,
- special,
- sporadic,
- supplementary,
- taking place,
- uncommon,
- under way,
- unessential,
- unfrequent
- fitfully
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- in a fitful manner; "he slept fitfully" related words >
- at haphazard,
- at intervals,
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by chance,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by skips,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- carelessly,
- desultorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- flutteringly,
- haltingly,
- haphazardly,
- here and there,
- hit or miss,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inconstantly,
- indiscriminately,
- infrequently,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- jerkily,
- lurchingly,
- nonuniformly,
- occasionally,
- off and on,
- patchily,
- per saltum,
- promiscuously,
- quakingly,
- quaveringly,
- quiveringly,
- randomly,
- roughly,
- saltatorily,
- shakily,
- shudderingly,
- skippingly,
- sloppily,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- tremblingly,
- tremulously,
- uncertainly,
- unevenly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- variably,
- waveringly,
- whimsically,
- willy-nilly,
- wobblingly
- quadrant
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- a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies
- the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle
- any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes
- a quarter of the circumference of a circle
- a quarter of the circumference of a circle related words >
- adjunct,
- astrolabe,
- azimuth circle,
- azimuth compass,
- bevel,
- bevel protractor,
- bevel square,
- clinometer,
- component,
- contingent,
- crescent,
- cross section,
- detachment,
- detail,
- division,
- dole,
- fraction,
- goniometer,
- graphometer,
- half circle,
- hemicycle,
- installment,
- item,
- pantometer,
- parcel,
- part,
- particular,
- percentage,
- portion,
- protractor,
- quarter,
- quota,
- radiogoniometer,
- random sample,
- remainder,
- sample,
- sampling,
- section,
- sector,
- segment,
- semicircle,
- sextant,
- share,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- subspecies,
- theodolite,
- transit,
- transit circle,
- transit instrument,
- transit theodolite
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