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at random

at random prepositional phrase: randomly, haphazardly.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Randomly, haphazardly.
    • It was a long, difficult business, for the coins were of all countries and sizes — doubloons, and louis d’ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides, all shaken together at random.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

at random meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Arabic and Thai

at random in Tamil

ஒழுங்குமுறையின்றி, வரிசை முறையின்றி

at random in Malayalam

arbitrarily, unsystemati-cally, randomly
ക്രമരഹിതമായി, അടുക്കും ക്രമവുമില്ലാതെ, വല്ലപ്പോഴും, യദൃച്ഛയാ, വ്യവസ്ഥാനുരൂപമല്ലാതെ, ഏകപക്ഷീയമായി

at random in Arabic

randomly
عَشْوَائِيًّا ʕašwāʔiyyan

at random in Thai

randomly
อย่างสุ่ม yàang-sùm

Questions about at random

What does at random mean?
At random means randomly, haphazardly.
What is at random in Tamil?
At random in Tamil is ஒழுங்குமுறையின்றி, வரிசை முறையின்றி. See At random meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is at random?
At random is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at random in the dictionary

  1. at places
  2. at play
  3. at pleasure
  4. at present
  5. at rack and manger
  6. at random
  7. at rest
  8. at right angles to
  9. at risk
  10. at rovers
  11. at scale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: at random (page history and authors); at random (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); at random (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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