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haphazardous

haphazardous adjective: haphazard.

Adjective

haphazardous (comparative more haphazardous, superlative most haphazardous)

  1. haphazard
    • A superstitious person might have thought it unfortunate that her partner in this speculative industry (as in Wilbur’s disastrous rolling‐mills) was that charming but too haphazardous man of the world, George Amberson.1920, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Doubleday, Page & Company, page 422

Forms of haphazardous

comparativemore haphazardous
superlativemost haphazardous

Origin of haphazardous

From haphazard + -ous, influenced by hazardous.

Words formed from haphazardous

Questions about haphazardous

What does haphazardous mean?
Haphazardous means haphazard.
What part of speech is haphazardous?
Haphazardous is an adjective.

Words near haphazardous in the dictionary

  1. hapful
  2. haphazard
  3. haphazardly
  4. haphazardness
  5. haphazardnesses
  6. haphazardous
  7. haphazardously
  8. haphazardries
  9. haphazardry
  10. haphazards
  11. haphephobia

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