Definition of random in English:

random

adjective ˈrandəmˈrændəm

1Made, done, or happening without method or conscious decision.
apparently random violence
Example sentencesExamples
- We don't want a list of random facts that just happen to be true of all the languages that are spoken now.
- Disappointingly, the survey reveals that random violence is increasing.
- We like to work on the songs so that they're not just random power chords.
- When I'm forced to make a decision, I'll often use some random means to help me make up my mind.
- It shows that life for many prisoners is one of drug addiction, random violence and long periods spent locked up in their cells.
- So basing any decision on what is most likely to be a random share price pattern is in reality like pouring money down the drain.
- Some deaths may be attributed to domestic violence or random crime.
- Sometimes I just get random thoughts in my head, and these can happen at the worst possible times.
- I busied myself with some random fruit at the vegie markets while casually looking back at him.
- They were weighted and thought out and they weren't random sporadic decisions.
- In a changing world we have become used to random acts of senseless violence.
- He becomes the victim of random violence, and is beaten to death by street thugs.
- In science, observations are not any random facts that investigators happen to have registered.
- Here we studied the relationship between random happenings and the natural order of things.
- The journey was relatively silent, aside from the random clearing of throats.
- This is not just a random grab at topicality but a surprisingly cogent decision.
- What is now required is to go beyond looking at what happened as a random event.
- This sampling error causes random fluctuations in allele frequencies called genetic drift.
- No conclusion can be drawn from her death other than that random acts of violence can happen anywhere.
- His stories do not conclude, but simply stop dead with a random act of violence.
Synonyms
haphazard, disorganized, undisciplined, erratic, unmethodical, uneven, careless, slapdash, slipshod, casual, offhand, remiss, cursory, lackadaisical, perfunctory, aimless, undirected, indiscriminate, trial-and-error
1. 1.1Statistics Governed by or involving equal chances for each item.
  a random sample of 100 households
  Example sentencesExamples
  In a random sample of 1,150 Orkney people, Smith was not common enough to make it into the top ten list.
  So even if one starts with a random sample, the sample can end up being greatly biased by way of the limited response.
  Results are based on statistically valid random samples of members and are rigorously audited.
  This has made the whole process of ensuring a random sample more difficult.
  The four conditions occurred in a random order and with equal probability within each block of trials.
  Synonyms
  unsystematic, arbitrary, unmethodical, haphazard, unarranged, unplanned, undirected, casual, indiscriminate, non-specific, stray, erratic
  chance, accidental, hit-and-miss
  serendipitous, fortuitous, contingent, adventitious
  non-linear, entropic, fractal
  rare aleatory, stochastic
2. 1.2 (of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape.
  Example sentencesExamples
  York stone flags, laid in random sizes, were chosen for the paving to give a sense of quality and scale.
2derogatory, informal Unfamiliar or unspecified.
are you going to take some random guy on Twitter's word?
we stumbled on another live band playing at a random bar
Example sentencesExamples
- These files are a risk to people downloading any random file off a google search (just asking for trouble there).
- Lucien is exactly the kind of guy to make out with random girls in bars.
- Perhaps their first response to a random phonecall shouldn't be a full-scale military intervention.
- You enter a random door and then suddenly the screen becomes black with some text.
- I wish there was like, a major chatroom, where you could take a number, wait for it to come up, and then just vent for 5-10 minutes to random people.
- He's not even a video game guy, he's just some random finance guy who occasionally offers incredibly ill-informed opinions about video games.
- Why would a group of grown men want to pay for some random bloke they don't know to be on their stag do just because he's small?
- Well, here's a scene of him looking obsessively at a random blonde woman.
- You can't trust the people you're expecting to guard the schools any more than you can a random person off the street.
- Of course the broadcaster has already had its "experts" (you know, the off the street random people they pay to claim things).
1. 2.1 Odd, unusual, or unexpected.
  the class was hard but he was so random that it was always fun
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our mini chicken burgers had carrots, peas and corn in - very random!
  This is so weird and random!
  The colouring book idea made me chuckle, it's so random!
  The things they say and ask are so random.
  Actually, the entire segment was kind of random.
  I had a sudden craving for chicken… Wow that was random.
  He was in the hotel room next to us which was really random.

noun ˈrandəmˈrændəm

informal

An unknown, unspecified, or odd person.
I just sat down by myself and talked to some randoms
some randoms in the crowd asked Ivan Ljubicic to take a photo for them
unlike other fan mail from randoms, this was special
Example sentencesExamples
- He's so well-off he can apparently afford to just hand off $50.00 to randoms on the street.
- The parents have forgotten that they have as much influence on their daughter's life as any other randoms.
- He had a family, but here you are, sharing the main picture of him with a random from his past because she was once a celeb?
- Here's how you can tell if a color works on you: wear it all day long and if you get compliments from randoms, then you're set.
- If no one knows you are an employee of the company then why would your internet rant carry any more weight then a random on the internet?
- I don't want to rely on friends or randoms to enjoy a game.
- I can foresee a lot of problems trying to play this with randoms online.
- UK festivals involve downing as much cider as humanly possible, making friends with randoms, and living off Tesco pasties.
- Then immediately I got multiple 'friend requests' from randoms.
- Click one to connect to other randoms with the same interest.

Phrases

at random

Without method or conscious decision.
he opened the book at random
Example sentencesExamples
- Ernie opens a page at random, nods his head approvingly, and begins to read.
- Chrissy picked the blue map book up from the floor by her feet and opened it at random.
- The attack was unprovoked and it seems he was selected at random for assassination.
- When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over.
- The chicken will begin its walk from a corner of the field chosen at random just moments before the event takes place.
- The questions are generated on the computer system at random from a question bank.
- He put unbound sheets into a box and invited us to read them at random!
- The head monkey grabs a stick and flails around at random, whacking his compatriots.
- Manu and Nadine meet up, and go on a road trip, picking up men, and killing at random.
- By way of comparison, I went to the book shelf and picked out three Ian Fleming books at random.
Synonyms
unsystematically, arbitrarily, randomly, without prearrangement, without method, unmethodically, haphazardly, without conscious choice, leaving things to chance

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'impetuous headlong rush'): from Old French randon 'great speed', from randir 'gallop', from a Germanic root shared by rand².

In early use random referred to an ‘impetuous headlong rush’. It comes from Old French randon ‘great speed’, from a Germanic root.

Rhymes

avizandum, fandom, memorandum, nil desperandum, tandem

Definition of random in US English:

random

adjectiveˈrændəmˈrandəm

1Made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious decision.
a random sample of 100 households
Example sentencesExamples
- He becomes the victim of random violence, and is beaten to death by street thugs.
- The journey was relatively silent, aside from the random clearing of throats.
- We don't want a list of random facts that just happen to be true of all the languages that are spoken now.
- It shows that life for many prisoners is one of drug addiction, random violence and long periods spent locked up in their cells.
- They were weighted and thought out and they weren't random sporadic decisions.
- What is now required is to go beyond looking at what happened as a random event.
- When I'm forced to make a decision, I'll often use some random means to help me make up my mind.
- We like to work on the songs so that they're not just random power chords.
- So basing any decision on what is most likely to be a random share price pattern is in reality like pouring money down the drain.
- I busied myself with some random fruit at the vegie markets while casually looking back at him.
- Sometimes I just get random thoughts in my head, and these can happen at the worst possible times.
- Disappointingly, the survey reveals that random violence is increasing.
- Here we studied the relationship between random happenings and the natural order of things.
- This sampling error causes random fluctuations in allele frequencies called genetic drift.
- This is not just a random grab at topicality but a surprisingly cogent decision.
- In a changing world we have become used to random acts of senseless violence.
- No conclusion can be drawn from her death other than that random acts of violence can happen anywhere.
- In science, observations are not any random facts that investigators happen to have registered.
- His stories do not conclude, but simply stop dead with a random act of violence.
- Some deaths may be attributed to domestic violence or random crime.
Synonyms
haphazard, disorganized, undisciplined, erratic, unmethodical, uneven, careless, slapdash, slipshod, casual, offhand, remiss, cursory, lackadaisical, perfunctory, aimless, undirected, indiscriminate, trial-and-error
1. 1.1Statistics Governed by or involving equal chances for each item.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The four conditions occurred in a random order and with equal probability within each block of trials.
  In a random sample of 1,150 Orkney people, Smith was not common enough to make it into the top ten list.
  This has made the whole process of ensuring a random sample more difficult.
  Results are based on statistically valid random samples of members and are rigorously audited.
  So even if one starts with a random sample, the sample can end up being greatly biased by way of the limited response.
  Synonyms
  unsystematic, arbitrary, unmethodical, haphazard, unarranged, unplanned, undirected, casual, indiscriminate, non-specific, stray, erratic
2. 1.2 (of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape.
  Example sentencesExamples
  York stone flags, laid in random sizes, were chosen for the paving to give a sense of quality and scale.
2derogatory, informal Unfamiliar or unspecified.
are you going to take some random guy on Twitter's word?
we stumbled on another live band playing at a random bar
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, here's a scene of him looking obsessively at a random blonde woman.
- These files are a risk to people downloading any random file off a google search (just asking for trouble there).
- You can't trust the people you're expecting to guard the schools any more than you can a random person off the street.
- Perhaps their first response to a random phonecall shouldn't be a full-scale military intervention.
- He's not even a video game guy, he's just some random finance guy who occasionally offers incredibly ill-informed opinions about video games.
- I wish there was like, a major chatroom, where you could take a number, wait for it to come up, and then just vent for 5-10 minutes to random people.
- You enter a random door and then suddenly the screen becomes black with some text.
- Lucien is exactly the kind of guy to make out with random girls in bars.
- Of course the broadcaster has already had its "experts" (you know, the off the street random people they pay to claim things).
- Why would a group of grown men want to pay for some random bloke they don't know to be on their stag do just because he's small?
1. 2.1 Odd, unusual, or unexpected.
  the class was hard but he was so random that it was always fun
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is so weird and random!
  He was in the hotel room next to us which was really random.
  I had a sudden craving for chicken… Wow that was random.
  Our mini chicken burgers had carrots, peas and corn in - very random!
  Actually, the entire segment was kind of random.
  The things they say and ask are so random.
  The colouring book idea made me chuckle, it's so random!

nounˈrændəmˈrandəm

informal

An unknown, unspecified, or odd person.
I just sat down by myself and talked to some randoms
some randoms in the crowd asked Ivan Ljubicic to take a photo for them
unlike other fan mail from randoms, this was special
Example sentencesExamples
- I can foresee a lot of problems trying to play this with randoms online.
- He had a family, but here you are, sharing the main picture of him with a random from his past because she was once a celeb?
- Click one to connect to other randoms with the same interest.
- He's so well-off he can apparently afford to just hand off $50.00 to randoms on the street.
- Then immediately I got multiple 'friend requests' from randoms.
- If no one knows you are an employee of the company then why would your internet rant carry any more weight then a random on the internet?
- UK festivals involve downing as much cider as humanly possible, making friends with randoms, and living off Tesco pasties.
- I don't want to rely on friends or randoms to enjoy a game.
- Here's how you can tell if a color works on you: wear it all day long and if you get compliments from randoms, then you're set.
- The parents have forgotten that they have as much influence on their daughter's life as any other randoms.

Phrases

at random

Without method or conscious decision.
he opened the book at random
Example sentencesExamples
- The chicken will begin its walk from a corner of the field chosen at random just moments before the event takes place.
- Manu and Nadine meet up, and go on a road trip, picking up men, and killing at random.
- He put unbound sheets into a box and invited us to read them at random!
- The questions are generated on the computer system at random from a question bank.
- The attack was unprovoked and it seems he was selected at random for assassination.
- Ernie opens a page at random, nods his head approvingly, and begins to read.
- By way of comparison, I went to the book shelf and picked out three Ian Fleming books at random.
- The head monkey grabs a stick and flails around at random, whacking his compatriots.
- Chrissy picked the blue map book up from the floor by her feet and opened it at random.
- When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over.
Synonyms
unsystematically, arbitrarily, randomly, without prearrangement, without method, unmethodically, haphazardly, without conscious choice, leaving things to chance

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘impetuous headlong rush’): from Old French randon ‘great speed’, from randir ‘gallop’, from a Germanic root shared by rand.

单词	random
释义	Definition of random in English: random adjective ˈrandəmˈrændəm 1Made, done, or happening without method or conscious decision. apparently random violence Example sentencesExamples We don't want a list of random facts that just happen to be true of all the languages that are spoken now. Disappointingly, the survey reveals that random violence is increasing. We like to work on the songs so that they're not just random power chords. When I'm forced to make a decision, I'll often use some random means to help me make up my mind. It shows that life for many prisoners is one of drug addiction, random violence and long periods spent locked up in their cells. So basing any decision on what is most likely to be a random share price pattern is in reality like pouring money down the drain. Some deaths may be attributed to domestic violence or random crime. Sometimes I just get random thoughts in my head, and these can happen at the worst possible times. I busied myself with some random fruit at the vegie markets while casually looking back at him. They were weighted and thought out and they weren't random sporadic decisions. In a changing world we have become used to random acts of senseless violence. He becomes the victim of random violence, and is beaten to death by street thugs. In science, observations are not any random facts that investigators happen to have registered. Here we studied the relationship between random happenings and the natural order of things. The journey was relatively silent, aside from the random clearing of throats. This is not just a random grab at topicality but a surprisingly cogent decision. What is now required is to go beyond looking at what happened as a random event. This sampling error causes random fluctuations in allele frequencies called genetic drift. No conclusion can be drawn from her death other than that random acts of violence can happen anywhere. His stories do not conclude, but simply stop dead with a random act of violence. Synonyms haphazard, disorganized, undisciplined, erratic, unmethodical, uneven, careless, slapdash, slipshod, casual, offhand, remiss, cursory, lackadaisical, perfunctory, aimless, undirected, indiscriminate, trial-and-error 1.1Statistics Governed by or involving equal chances for each item. a random sample of 100 households Example sentencesExamples In a random sample of 1,150 Orkney people, Smith was not common enough to make it into the top ten list. So even if one starts with a random sample, the sample can end up being greatly biased by way of the limited response. Results are based on statistically valid random samples of members and are rigorously audited. This has made the whole process of ensuring a random sample more difficult. The four conditions occurred in a random order and with equal probability within each block of trials. Synonyms unsystematic, arbitrary, unmethodical, haphazard, unarranged, unplanned, undirected, casual, indiscriminate, non-specific, stray, erratic chance, accidental, hit-and-miss serendipitous, fortuitous, contingent, adventitious non-linear, entropic, fractal rare aleatory, stochastic 1.2 (of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape. Example sentencesExamples York stone flags, laid in random sizes, were chosen for the paving to give a sense of quality and scale. 2derogatory, informal Unfamiliar or unspecified. are you going to take some random guy on Twitter's word? we stumbled on another live band playing at a random bar Example sentencesExamples These files are a risk to people downloading any random file off a google search (just asking for trouble there). Lucien is exactly the kind of guy to make out with random girls in bars. Perhaps their first response to a random phonecall shouldn't be a full-scale military intervention. You enter a random door and then suddenly the screen becomes black with some text. I wish there was like, a major chatroom, where you could take a number, wait for it to come up, and then just vent for 5-10 minutes to random people. He's not even a video game guy, he's just some random finance guy who occasionally offers incredibly ill-informed opinions about video games. Why would a group of grown men want to pay for some random bloke they don't know to be on their stag do just because he's small? Well, here's a scene of him looking obsessively at a random blonde woman. You can't trust the people you're expecting to guard the schools any more than you can a random person off the street. Of course the broadcaster has already had its "experts" (you know, the off the street random people they pay to claim things). 2.1 Odd, unusual, or unexpected. the class was hard but he was so random that it was always fun Example sentencesExamples Our mini chicken burgers had carrots, peas and corn in - very random! This is so weird and random! The colouring book idea made me chuckle, it's so random! The things they say and ask are so random. Actually, the entire segment was kind of random. I had a sudden craving for chicken… Wow that was random. He was in the hotel room next to us which was really random. noun ˈrandəmˈrændəm informal An unknown, unspecified, or odd person. I just sat down by myself and talked to some randoms some randoms in the crowd asked Ivan Ljubicic to take a photo for them unlike other fan mail from randoms, this was special Example sentencesExamples He's so well-off he can apparently afford to just hand off $50.00 to randoms on the street. The parents have forgotten that they have as much influence on their daughter's life as any other randoms. He had a family, but here you are, sharing the main picture of him with a random from his past because she was once a celeb? Here's how you can tell if a color works on you: wear it all day long and if you get compliments from randoms, then you're set. If no one knows you are an employee of the company then why would your internet rant carry any more weight then a random on the internet? I don't want to rely on friends or randoms to enjoy a game. I can foresee a lot of problems trying to play this with randoms online. UK festivals involve downing as much cider as humanly possible, making friends with randoms, and living off Tesco pasties. Then immediately I got multiple 'friend requests' from randoms. Click one to connect to other randoms with the same interest. Phrases at random Without method or conscious decision. he opened the book at random Example sentencesExamples Ernie opens a page at random, nods his head approvingly, and begins to read. Chrissy picked the blue map book up from the floor by her feet and opened it at random. The attack was unprovoked and it seems he was selected at random for assassination. When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. The chicken will begin its walk from a corner of the field chosen at random just moments before the event takes place. The questions are generated on the computer system at random from a question bank. He put unbound sheets into a box and invited us to read them at random! The head monkey grabs a stick and flails around at random, whacking his compatriots. Manu and Nadine meet up, and go on a road trip, picking up men, and killing at random. By way of comparison, I went to the book shelf and picked out three Ian Fleming books at random. Synonyms unsystematically, arbitrarily, randomly, without prearrangement, without method, unmethodically, haphazardly, without conscious choice, leaving things to chance Origin Middle English (in the sense 'impetuous headlong rush'): from Old French randon 'great speed', from randir 'gallop', from a Germanic root shared by rand². In early use random referred to an ‘impetuous headlong rush’. It comes from Old French randon ‘great speed’, from a Germanic root. Rhymes avizandum, fandom, memorandum, nil desperandum, tandem adj.1 phr. Definition of random in US English: random adjectiveˈrændəmˈrandəm 1Made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious decision. a random sample of 100 households Example sentencesExamples He becomes the victim of random violence, and is beaten to death by street thugs. The journey was relatively silent, aside from the random clearing of throats. We don't want a list of random facts that just happen to be true of all the languages that are spoken now. It shows that life for many prisoners is one of drug addiction, random violence and long periods spent locked up in their cells. They were weighted and thought out and they weren't random sporadic decisions. What is now required is to go beyond looking at what happened as a random event. When I'm forced to make a decision, I'll often use some random means to help me make up my mind. We like to work on the songs so that they're not just random power chords. So basing any decision on what is most likely to be a random share price pattern is in reality like pouring money down the drain. I busied myself with some random fruit at the vegie markets while casually looking back at him. Sometimes I just get random thoughts in my head, and these can happen at the worst possible times. Disappointingly, the survey reveals that random violence is increasing. Here we studied the relationship between random happenings and the natural order of things. This sampling error causes random fluctuations in allele frequencies called genetic drift. This is not just a random grab at topicality but a surprisingly cogent decision. In a changing world we have become used to random acts of senseless violence. No conclusion can be drawn from her death other than that random acts of violence can happen anywhere. In science, observations are not any random facts that investigators happen to have registered. His stories do not conclude, but simply stop dead with a random act of violence. Some deaths may be attributed to domestic violence or random crime. Synonyms haphazard, disorganized, undisciplined, erratic, unmethodical, uneven, careless, slapdash, slipshod, casual, offhand, remiss, cursory, lackadaisical, perfunctory, aimless, undirected, indiscriminate, trial-and-error 1.1Statistics Governed by or involving equal chances for each item. Example sentencesExamples The four conditions occurred in a random order and with equal probability within each block of trials. In a random sample of 1,150 Orkney people, Smith was not common enough to make it into the top ten list. This has made the whole process of ensuring a random sample more difficult. Results are based on statistically valid random samples of members and are rigorously audited. So even if one starts with a random sample, the sample can end up being greatly biased by way of the limited response. Synonyms unsystematic, arbitrary, unmethodical, haphazard, unarranged, unplanned, undirected, casual, indiscriminate, non-specific, stray, erratic 1.2 (of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape. Example sentencesExamples York stone flags, laid in random sizes, were chosen for the paving to give a sense of quality and scale. 2derogatory, informal Unfamiliar or unspecified. are you going to take some random guy on Twitter's word? we stumbled on another live band playing at a random bar Example sentencesExamples Well, here's a scene of him looking obsessively at a random blonde woman. These files are a risk to people downloading any random file off a google search (just asking for trouble there). You can't trust the people you're expecting to guard the schools any more than you can a random person off the street. Perhaps their first response to a random phonecall shouldn't be a full-scale military intervention. He's not even a video game guy, he's just some random finance guy who occasionally offers incredibly ill-informed opinions about video games. I wish there was like, a major chatroom, where you could take a number, wait for it to come up, and then just vent for 5-10 minutes to random people. You enter a random door and then suddenly the screen becomes black with some text. Lucien is exactly the kind of guy to make out with random girls in bars. Of course the broadcaster has already had its "experts" (you know, the off the street random people they pay to claim things). Why would a group of grown men want to pay for some random bloke they don't know to be on their stag do just because he's small? 2.1 Odd, unusual, or unexpected. the class was hard but he was so random that it was always fun Example sentencesExamples This is so weird and random! He was in the hotel room next to us which was really random. I had a sudden craving for chicken… Wow that was random. Our mini chicken burgers had carrots, peas and corn in - very random! Actually, the entire segment was kind of random. The things they say and ask are so random. The colouring book idea made me chuckle, it's so random! nounˈrændəmˈrandəm informal An unknown, unspecified, or odd person. I just sat down by myself and talked to some randoms some randoms in the crowd asked Ivan Ljubicic to take a photo for them unlike other fan mail from randoms, this was special Example sentencesExamples I can foresee a lot of problems trying to play this with randoms online. He had a family, but here you are, sharing the main picture of him with a random from his past because she was once a celeb? Click one to connect to other randoms with the same interest. He's so well-off he can apparently afford to just hand off $50.00 to randoms on the street. Then immediately I got multiple 'friend requests' from randoms. If no one knows you are an employee of the company then why would your internet rant carry any more weight then a random on the internet? UK festivals involve downing as much cider as humanly possible, making friends with randoms, and living off Tesco pasties. I don't want to rely on friends or randoms to enjoy a game. Here's how you can tell if a color works on you: wear it all day long and if you get compliments from randoms, then you're set. The parents have forgotten that they have as much influence on their daughter's life as any other randoms. Phrases at random Without method or conscious decision. he opened the book at random Example sentencesExamples The chicken will begin its walk from a corner of the field chosen at random just moments before the event takes place. Manu and Nadine meet up, and go on a road trip, picking up men, and killing at random. He put unbound sheets into a box and invited us to read them at random! The questions are generated on the computer system at random from a question bank. The attack was unprovoked and it seems he was selected at random for assassination. Ernie opens a page at random, nods his head approvingly, and begins to read. By way of comparison, I went to the book shelf and picked out three Ian Fleming books at random. The head monkey grabs a stick and flails around at random, whacking his compatriots. Chrissy picked the blue map book up from the floor by her feet and opened it at random. When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. Synonyms unsystematically, arbitrarily, randomly, without prearrangement, without method, unmethodically, haphazardly, without conscious choice, leaving things to chance Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘impetuous headlong rush’): from Old French randon ‘great speed’, from randir ‘gallop’, from a Germanic root shared by rand. adj.1 phr.
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