hap-hazard
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adv
Example Sentences
- "He would in this way discover which mixture of soil, or what sort of manure was required,—a very different thing from proceeding upon hap-hazard experience."
- "To assert that no good had ever come from hap-hazard practice in the past would, perhaps, be incorrect. For aught I know the initial practice with any given drug among savage people is hap-hazard, and we all know that some valued practices with drugs are simply in imitation of practices with them among savage people."
- "Besides, it is one thing to predict or operate hap-hazard, and quite another to have definite, positive convictions, leading naturally to the anticipated result."
- "Coal and petroleum do not occur hap-hazard in nature, but the aggregate occurrence of each product in any region forms a definite, limited horizon, which, in its continuance, is independent of the bedding plane."
Inflected Forms
more hap-hazard (comparative)
most hap-hazard (superlative)