haphazardn.adj.adv.

Brit.

/ˌhapˈhazəd/, U.S.

/ˌhæpˈhæzərd/

Forms: see hap n.¹ and hazard n. and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hap n.¹, hazard n.

Etymology: < hap n.¹ + hazard n.

A. n.

1. Simple chance or accident; fortuitousness, luck. Also: random nature or quality. Now rare.Recorded earliest in by haphazard at Phrases 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness

catch as catch cana1393

die1548

hazard1548

random1565

haphazard1569

chance-medley1583

lay1584

lottery1593

haphazarding1787

randomness1803

haphazardness1857

happy-go-luckiness1866

chanciness1870

flukiness1888

haphazardry1910

randomicity1936

1569 N. Haward tr. Seneca Line of Liberalitie ii. xix. f. 65^v Plesour that proueth so but by happe hazard and chaunce medely [prob. read merely], is rather to be deemed an iniurye.

1576 A. Fleming tr. in Panoplie Epist. 227 The power of those tyrants, in whose clawes since you are caught, it is hap hazard, if you escape vndamnified.

1642 J. Brown Ioyfull Newes from Hvll sig. A2 If upon a conceited survey of imminent danger, they had left to be caustious, they had resigned injoyed security to hap hazards Cruilty.

1709 W. Carroll Spinoza Reviv'd 55 By the Blind Unguided Laws of Matter and Motion, or by a meer hit of Hap hazard.

1739 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher II. 14 A Man might as well cast Lots for his Faith and Religion, or put it to any Trial of Hap-hazard, as rest it upon such a footing.

1802 L. Chester Federalism Triumphant v. 35 Leave that point no longer to the hap hazzard of incertitude.

1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. v. viii. 479 Everything was left to a kind of hap-hazard.

1889 Spectator 23 Nov. The..hereditary principle, with all its necessary haphazard.

1920 W. J. Brown in M. Atkinson Australia v. 218 The variety of the objects should not be overlooked—the haphazard of collective bargaining, the elimination of sweating, the creation of a new status of employee [etc.].

2011 J. Winterson Why be Happy? vi. 68 There are psychological advantages to choosing life and a way of life consciously—and not just accepting life as an animal gift lived according to the haphazard of nature and chance.

†a. A matter of pure chance. Chiefly in to be a haphazard. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness > a matter of mere chance

lottery1585

haphazard1594

lucky bag1788

Russian roulette1937

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xv. §3. 298 If the generation take not effect at the first comming, it is a great hap hazard, but that at the second a female shalbe begotten.

a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 296 How many events..seem to persons ignorant of those Counsels to be a hap-hazard.

1846 Evangelical Repository (Philadelphia) May 586 The repeating tune re-chimes always the same lines of each stanza, so that it is a hap-hazard if it should hit the (supposed) emphatic sentiment.

b. A chance eventuality or random occurrence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > chance or fortuitous event

adventure?c1225

hapc1275

chancea1300

fortunea1375

accidenta1398

casualtya1513

to-fall1562

withfall1562

casual1566

casuality1574

stour1583

upcasta1616

contingency1620

haphazard1651

contingence1660

unaccountable1789

happen-so1816

happenchance1847

happenstance1857

1651 W. Ramesey Lux Veritatis i. 37 Wherefore seeing truth and authority of these, as well as Scripture..distinguisheth it from these sortelegies, haphazards and chances; it mattereth not what either he doth or can say, or do, against it.

1696 S. Nye Disc. conc. Relig. 227 Is not this to imagine Wise Chances, Prudent Hap-hazards?

1796 F. Burney Camilla III. 141 You should never talk about your own fingers, or hap-hazards, to genteel people.

1857 W. M. Wooler in Spectator 6 June 596/1 The ultimate result may be less shaped by those who are the best able to judge of requisites..than by the haphazards of accident, like the counsel taken at a public meeting.

1912 O. Heller Henrik Ibsen v. 97 Events must be regarded by us not as the haphazards of blind fate, but rather as volitional acts of the universal Ego.

2000 R. M. Rothaus Corinth vii. 114 It is often problematic to separate normal damage and the haphazards of preservation from deliberate mutilation.

B. adj.

Dependent on chance or accident; lacking any obvious principle of organization; random, characterized by haphazard.This use is poorly attested before the 19th cent., but is now the most usual.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] > random or haphazard

uncertain1303

casualc1460

haphazard1576

roving1577

hazardous1585

chanceful1594

firmless1605

random1655

temerarious1660

aleatory1693

contingent1703

unlawed1789

by the way1846

chancy1860

fluky1880

hitty-missy1885

perchance1891

happenchance1905

happenstance1905

willy-nilly1933

1576 U. Fulwell Ars Adulandi sig. C^v Hap hazard dame Fortune, your wheele runnes to fast, You lifte vp a foole, and a wise man downe cast.

1671 E. Maynwaring Praxis Medicorum 101 This is not a time to practice with hap hazard medicines.

1762 Edinbugh Mag. Aug. 396/1 It is the general spirit of you all to live above your incomes, and to try any hap-hazard projects to gain some extraordinary benefit ticket.

1805 R. Southey Select. from Lett. 7 Nov. (1856) I. 346 But his praise and his censure are alike haphazard and worthless.

1836 W. Irving Astoria I. xx. 211 They were accompanied by an interpreter; one of those haphazard wights of Gallic origin, who abound upon our frontier, living among the Indians like one of their own race.

1875 J. C. Cox Notes on Churches of Derbyshire I. 208 Fragments of coloured glass..inserted in a haphazard fashion.

1908 I. Bronk Poésies Diverses A. Furetière p. xxix His haphazard prescriptions of senna, cassia, and the like.

1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. i. 4 These atoms in the molecule are not arranged in space in any haphazard fashion, but in very definite ways.

2011 New Yorker 14 Mar. 40/1 Equipment and manpower were marshalled in haphazard ways, and amid the confusion the fires grew worse.

C. adv.

In a haphazard manner; at random; casually.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > randomly or haphazardly

into uncertain1382

uncertainlya1387

at adventure (also adventures)c1390

at or on six and sevena1398

auntersa1450

at all adventure (also adventures)1485

by hab or by nab1530

at rovers (rarely rover)c1531

hab or nab1542

hitty-missy1553

rovingly1583

haphazard1600

random1619

unsight, unseena1627

happy-be-lucky1633

cross and pile1648

temerariously1669

happy-go-lucky1672

à tort et à travers1749

randomly1765

chance-medley1822

haphazardly1832

willy-nilly1908

by guess and by God (or Godfrey)1931

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xviii. 692 The gallies fought thus doubtfully together, hap hazard, at the pleasure and will of Fortune.

1795 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 21 June (2003) 305 I half expected to find a letter from you here. Had you written one hap-hazard, it would have been kind and considerate.

1857 C. Dickens Let. 9 Sept. (1995) VIII. 442 We came here, hap-hazard, but could not have done better.

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. xv. 383 Knowledge of human nature gained haphazard.

1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 395 This new social system did not come hap-hazard.

1903 W. S. Jackson Nine Points of Law vi. 171 Here was he with a trunk-load of misgotten gold wandering haphazard..over two countries.

1994 W. Gaddis Frolic of his Own 441 A squirrel came scratching haphazard.

Phrases

P1. at haphazard: by mere chance, without design; in a haphazard manner; at random, casually. Also † at a haphazard, (occasionally) at haphazards. Now somewhat archaic.

ΚΠ

1588 J. Ludham tr. A. Hyperius Speciall Treat. Gods Prouidence sig. C8^v They acknowleg that all creatures are moued at haphazard.

1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah xxvi. 543 This he doth not at hap-hazard, but he ordaineth it before with an immutable decree, so that it may not be changed.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 21 One that goes not to worke at a meere hap-hazard.

1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 48 Precipitancy is the passion of fools, who not being able to discover the danger, act at hap-hazard.

1726 G. Leoni Alcuni Disegni di Edificj: Some Designs for Buildings Pref. 1/1 Ornaments thrown together at hap-hazard.

1872 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 664/1 The ribs were found to have been placed at haphazard wherever they had united most easily with the back-bone.

1898 E. V. Flanders tr. J. Schultz Colette xxii. 215 To amuse myself, I sketch at hap-hazards. The end of a clock tower here, a cloud there, and a sheep grazing upon the cloud.

1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes vi. 64 If food is thrown into the aquarium at haphazard, the fish are not always able to find it.

1992 J. Haight & A. Mahler tr. R. Antelme Human Race 255 Since being in Germany our experience has not ceased to teach us what is possible. We stagger ahead, at haphazard.

P2. by haphazard: = at haphazard at Phrases 1. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1569By happe hazard [see sense A. 1].

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians iii. f. 113^v We do now know that is not by haphazard that the Gospel hath bin preached, but bycause it was Gods will to vtter the infinite riches of his goodnesse towardes vs.

a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §25 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 81 'Tis an unreasonable Homage paid to Prepossession, whereby we shew a Reverence..[to] what by hap-hazard we chance to light on.

1849 Amer. Rev. Oct. 352/2 The miles never was measured down here, and folks call the distances mostly by hap-hazard, I judge.

1902 G. Gissing in Fortn. Rev. 72 358 I should not have such intense pleasure as comes to me now and then by haphazard.

1952 L. Strauss Persecution & Art of Writing iii. 86 The Mishneh Torah..speaks of the basic truths only briefly and allusively (though by allusions approximating clear pronouncements) and by haphazard.

†P3. in haphazard: = at haphazard at Phrases 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1600 R. Kittowe Loues Load-starre sig. K.3 Informing the Tunisian Admirall how disorderly euery thing stood in hap-hazard.

1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. xiii. 20 None can make a wise choice in hap-hazard.

Derivatives

hapˈhazarding adj. and n. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness

catch as catch cana1393

die1548

hazard1548

random1565

haphazard1569

chance-medley1583

lay1584

lottery1593

haphazarding1787

randomness1803

haphazardness1857

happy-go-luckiness1866

chanciness1870

flukiness1888

haphazardry1910

randomicity1936

1787 G. McCalman Treat. Tea 17 In Japan chance or hap-hazarding of this nature is prohibited under pain of death.

1845 Brit. Q. Rev. 2 311/2 He [sc. Priestley] was constantly mistaking the meaning of the experiments, which his habit of ‘random haphazarding’—as [James] Watt happily describes it—led him to try.

1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxv. 232 This haphazarding sort of profession.

1902 F. Lynde Master of Appleby xxxii. 353 Seeing a wide field of danger-chances in this haphazarding, I would have asked more about this trimming gentleman to whom I was to be handed on.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	haphazard
释义	haphazardn.adj.adv. Brit. /ˌhapˈhazəd/, U.S. /ˌhæpˈhæzərd/ Forms: see hap n.¹ and hazard n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hap n.¹, hazard n. Etymology: < hap n.¹ + hazard n. A. n. 1. Simple chance or accident; fortuitousness, luck. Also: random nature or quality. Now rare.Recorded earliest in by haphazard at Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness catch as catch cana1393 die1548 hazard1548 random1565 haphazard1569 chance-medley1583 lay1584 lottery1593 haphazarding1787 randomness1803 haphazardness1857 happy-go-luckiness1866 chanciness1870 flukiness1888 haphazardry1910 randomicity1936 1569 N. Haward tr. Seneca Line of Liberalitie ii. xix. f. 65^v Plesour that proueth so but by happe hazard and chaunce medely [prob. read merely], is rather to be deemed an iniurye. 1576 A. Fleming tr. in Panoplie Epist. 227 The power of those tyrants, in whose clawes since you are caught, it is hap hazard, if you escape vndamnified. 1642 J. Brown Ioyfull Newes from Hvll sig. A2 If upon a conceited survey of imminent danger, they had left to be caustious, they had resigned injoyed security to hap hazards Cruilty. 1709 W. Carroll Spinoza Reviv'd 55 By the Blind Unguided Laws of Matter and Motion, or by a meer hit of Hap hazard. 1739 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher II. 14 A Man might as well cast Lots for his Faith and Religion, or put it to any Trial of Hap-hazard, as rest it upon such a footing. 1802 L. Chester Federalism Triumphant v. 35 Leave that point no longer to the hap hazzard of incertitude. 1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. v. viii. 479 Everything was left to a kind of hap-hazard. 1889 Spectator 23 Nov. The..hereditary principle, with all its necessary haphazard. 1920 W. J. Brown in M. Atkinson Australia v. 218 The variety of the objects should not be overlooked—the haphazard of collective bargaining, the elimination of sweating, the creation of a new status of employee [etc.]. 2011 J. Winterson Why be Happy? vi. 68 There are psychological advantages to choosing life and a way of life consciously—and not just accepting life as an animal gift lived according to the haphazard of nature and chance. 2. †a. A matter of pure chance. Chiefly in to be a haphazard. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness > a matter of mere chance lottery1585 haphazard1594 lucky bag1788 Russian roulette1937 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xv. §3. 298 If the generation take not effect at the first comming, it is a great hap hazard, but that at the second a female shalbe begotten. a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 296 How many events..seem to persons ignorant of those Counsels to be a hap-hazard. 1846 Evangelical Repository (Philadelphia) May 586 The repeating tune re-chimes always the same lines of each stanza, so that it is a hap-hazard if it should hit the (supposed) emphatic sentiment. b. A chance eventuality or random occurrence. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > chance or fortuitous event adventure?c1225 hapc1275 chancea1300 fortunea1375 accidenta1398 casualtya1513 to-fall1562 withfall1562 casual1566 casuality1574 stour1583 upcasta1616 contingency1620 haphazard1651 contingence1660 unaccountable1789 happen-so1816 happenchance1847 happenstance1857 1651 W. Ramesey Lux Veritatis i. 37 Wherefore seeing truth and authority of these, as well as Scripture..distinguisheth it from these sortelegies, haphazards and chances; it mattereth not what either he doth or can say, or do, against it. 1696 S. Nye Disc. conc. Relig. 227 Is not this to imagine Wise Chances, Prudent Hap-hazards? 1796 F. Burney Camilla III. 141 You should never talk about your own fingers, or hap-hazards, to genteel people. 1857 W. M. Wooler in Spectator 6 June 596/1 The ultimate result may be less shaped by those who are the best able to judge of requisites..than by the haphazards of accident, like the counsel taken at a public meeting. 1912 O. Heller Henrik Ibsen v. 97 Events must be regarded by us not as the haphazards of blind fate, but rather as volitional acts of the universal Ego. 2000 R. M. Rothaus Corinth vii. 114 It is often problematic to separate normal damage and the haphazards of preservation from deliberate mutilation. B. adj. Dependent on chance or accident; lacking any obvious principle of organization; random, characterized by haphazard.This use is poorly attested before the 19th cent., but is now the most usual. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] > random or haphazard uncertain1303 casualc1460 haphazard1576 roving1577 hazardous1585 chanceful1594 firmless1605 random1655 temerarious1660 aleatory1693 contingent1703 unlawed1789 by the way1846 chancy1860 fluky1880 hitty-missy1885 perchance1891 happenchance1905 happenstance1905 willy-nilly1933 1576 U. Fulwell Ars Adulandi sig. C^v Hap hazard dame Fortune, your wheele runnes to fast, You lifte vp a foole, and a wise man downe cast. 1671 E. Maynwaring Praxis Medicorum 101 This is not a time to practice with hap hazard medicines. 1762 Edinbugh Mag. Aug. 396/1 It is the general spirit of you all to live above your incomes, and to try any hap-hazard projects to gain some extraordinary benefit ticket. 1805 R. Southey Select. from Lett. 7 Nov. (1856) I. 346 But his praise and his censure are alike haphazard and worthless. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. xx. 211 They were accompanied by an interpreter; one of those haphazard wights of Gallic origin, who abound upon our frontier, living among the Indians like one of their own race. 1875 J. C. Cox Notes on Churches of Derbyshire I. 208 Fragments of coloured glass..inserted in a haphazard fashion. 1908 I. Bronk Poésies Diverses A. Furetière p. xxix His haphazard prescriptions of senna, cassia, and the like. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. i. 4 These atoms in the molecule are not arranged in space in any haphazard fashion, but in very definite ways. 2011 New Yorker 14 Mar. 40/1 Equipment and manpower were marshalled in haphazard ways, and amid the confusion the fires grew worse. C. adv. In a haphazard manner; at random; casually. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > randomly or haphazardly into uncertain1382 uncertainlya1387 at adventure (also adventures)c1390 at or on six and sevena1398 auntersa1450 at all adventure (also adventures)1485 by hab or by nab1530 at rovers (rarely rover)c1531 hab or nab1542 hitty-missy1553 rovingly1583 haphazard1600 random1619 unsight, unseena1627 happy-be-lucky1633 cross and pile1648 temerariously1669 happy-go-lucky1672 à tort et à travers1749 randomly1765 chance-medley1822 haphazardly1832 willy-nilly1908 by guess and by God (or Godfrey)1931 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xviii. 692 The gallies fought thus doubtfully together, hap hazard, at the pleasure and will of Fortune. 1795 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 21 June (2003) 305 I half expected to find a letter from you here. Had you written one hap-hazard, it would have been kind and considerate. 1857 C. Dickens Let. 9 Sept. (1995) VIII. 442 We came here, hap-hazard, but could not have done better. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. xv. 383 Knowledge of human nature gained haphazard. 1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 395 This new social system did not come hap-hazard. 1903 W. S. Jackson Nine Points of Law vi. 171 Here was he with a trunk-load of misgotten gold wandering haphazard..over two countries. 1994 W. Gaddis Frolic of his Own 441 A squirrel came scratching haphazard. Phrases P1. at haphazard: by mere chance, without design; in a haphazard manner; at random, casually. Also † at a haphazard, (occasionally) at haphazards. Now somewhat archaic. ΚΠ 1588 J. Ludham tr. A. Hyperius Speciall Treat. Gods Prouidence sig. C8^v They acknowleg that all creatures are moued at haphazard. 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah xxvi. 543 This he doth not at hap-hazard, but he ordaineth it before with an immutable decree, so that it may not be changed. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 21 One that goes not to worke at a meere hap-hazard. 1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 48 Precipitancy is the passion of fools, who not being able to discover the danger, act at hap-hazard. 1726 G. Leoni Alcuni Disegni di Edificj: Some Designs for Buildings Pref. 1/1 Ornaments thrown together at hap-hazard. 1872 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 664/1 The ribs were found to have been placed at haphazard wherever they had united most easily with the back-bone. 1898 E. V. Flanders tr. J. Schultz Colette xxii. 215 To amuse myself, I sketch at hap-hazards. The end of a clock tower here, a cloud there, and a sheep grazing upon the cloud. 1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes vi. 64 If food is thrown into the aquarium at haphazard, the fish are not always able to find it. 1992 J. Haight & A. Mahler tr. R. Antelme Human Race 255 Since being in Germany our experience has not ceased to teach us what is possible. We stagger ahead, at haphazard. P2. by haphazard: = at haphazard at Phrases 1. Now rare. ΚΠ 1569By happe hazard [see sense A. 1]. 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians iii. f. 113^v We do now know that is not by haphazard that the Gospel hath bin preached, but bycause it was Gods will to vtter the infinite riches of his goodnesse towardes vs. a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §25 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 81 'Tis an unreasonable Homage paid to Prepossession, whereby we shew a Reverence..[to] what by hap-hazard we chance to light on. 1849 Amer. Rev. Oct. 352/2 The miles never was measured down here, and folks call the distances mostly by hap-hazard, I judge. 1902 G. Gissing in Fortn. Rev. 72 358 I should not have such intense pleasure as comes to me now and then by haphazard. 1952 L. Strauss Persecution & Art of Writing iii. 86 The Mishneh Torah..speaks of the basic truths only briefly and allusively (though by allusions approximating clear pronouncements) and by haphazard. †P3. in haphazard: = at haphazard at Phrases 1. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1600 R. Kittowe Loues Load-starre sig. K.3 Informing the Tunisian Admirall how disorderly euery thing stood in hap-hazard. 1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. xiii. 20 None can make a wise choice in hap-hazard. Derivatives hapˈhazarding adj. and n. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness catch as catch cana1393 die1548 hazard1548 random1565 haphazard1569 chance-medley1583 lay1584 lottery1593 haphazarding1787 randomness1803 haphazardness1857 happy-go-luckiness1866 chanciness1870 flukiness1888 haphazardry1910 randomicity1936 1787 G. McCalman Treat. Tea 17 In Japan chance or hap-hazarding of this nature is prohibited under pain of death. 1845 Brit. Q. Rev. 2 311/2 He [sc. Priestley] was constantly mistaking the meaning of the experiments, which his habit of ‘random haphazarding’—as [James] Watt happily describes it—led him to try. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxv. 232 This haphazarding sort of profession. 1902 F. Lynde Master of Appleby xxxii. 353 Seeing a wide field of danger-chances in this haphazarding, I would have asked more about this trimming gentleman to whom I was to be handed on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.adv.1569
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