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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective: random movements. See Synonyms at chance.
  • adj. Mathematics & Statistics Of or relating to a type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.
  • adj. Of or relating to an event in which all outcomes are equally likely, as in the testing of a blood sample for the presence of a substance.
  • idiom. at random Without a governing design, method, or purpose; unsystematically: chose a card at random from the deck.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
  • adj. Of or relating to probability distribution.
  • adj. Pseudorandom in contrast to truly random; mimicking the result of random selection.
  • adj. Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
  • adj. Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause, or reason.
  • adj. Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Force; violence.
  • n. A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.
  • n. Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach.
  • n. The direction of a rake-vein.
  • adj. Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard.
  • adj. of, pertaining to, or resulting from a process of selection from a starting set of items, in which the probability of selecting any one object in the starting set is equal to the probability of selecting any other.
  • adj. of unequal size or shape; made from components of unequal size or shape.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A rushing, as of a torrent; an impetuous course; impetuosity; violence; force: especially with great, as in the phrase a great random, with great speed or force.
  • n. A rush; spurt; gush.
  • n. A continuous flow of words; a harangue.
  • n. An indeterminate course or proceeding; hence, lack of direction, rule, or method; haphazard; chance: used only in the phrase at randomā€”that is, in a haphazard, aimless, and purely fortuitous manner.
  • n. The distance traversed by a missile; range; reach.
  • Proceeding, taken, done, or existing at random; aimless; fortuitous; haphazard; casual.
  • n. Something done or produced without definite method, or with irregular or haphazard effect.
  • n. In dyeing, clouded yarn. See random yarn, under I.
  • n. In mining, the direction of a rake-vein.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
  • Equivalent
    haphazard    ergodic    hit-or-miss    stochastic   
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    Words with the same meaning
    force    violence    hazard    chance    range    reach    haphazard    speed    momentum    velocity   
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    memorandum    tandem   
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    similar    occasional    normal    mere    accidental