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haphazard (adjective):
: marked by lack of plan, order, or direction
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : The hap in haphazard comes from an English word that means “happening,” as well as “chance or fortune.” Hap, in turn, comes from the Old Norse word happ, meaning “good luck.” Perhaps it’s no accident that hazard also has its own connotations of chance and luck: while it now refers commonly to something that presents danger, at one time it referred to a dice game similar to craps. (The name ultimately comes from the Arabic word al-zahr, meaning “the die.”) Haphazard first entered English as a noun meaning “chance” in the 16th century, and soon afterward was being used as an adjective to describe things with no apparent logic or order.
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