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hit-or-miss

hit-or-miss adjective: inconsistent, unpredictable, erratic; sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing with no apparent pattern.

Adjective

hit-or-miss (comparative more hit-or-miss, superlative most hit-or-miss)

  1. (US, idiomatic, informal) Inconsistent, unpredictable, erratic; sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing with no apparent pattern.
    • On the contrary, these cones are made up of materials of all sizes mixed together in the most hit or miss fashion.1919, Robert F. Griggs, “The Great Mageik Landslide”, in The Ohio Journal of Science, volume 20, number 8, page 342
    Synonyms:
    hitty-missy

hit-or-miss meaning in Malayalam

hit-or-miss in Malayalam

haphazard, erratic, disorganized
ഒത്താലൊക്കട്ടെയെന്ന മട്ടിലുള്ള, അശ്രദ്ധമായ, ഒഴുക്കൻമട്ടിലുള്ള, കിട്ടിയാൽ കിട്ടി എന്ന ഭാവത്തിലുള്ള, ഒക്കുന്നെങ്കിൽ ഒക്കട്ടെ എന്ന രീതിയിലുള്ള, പൊട്ടക്കണ്ണന്റെ മാവേലേറു പോലെയുള്ള

Synonyms of hit-or-miss

Forms of hit-or-miss

comparativemore hit-
comparative-miss
superlativemost hit-
superlative-miss
alternative formhit-and-miss
alternative formhit or miss
alternative formhit and miss

Words formed from hit-or-miss

Phrases with hit-or-miss

Questions about hit-or-miss

What does hit-or-miss mean?
Hit-or-miss means inconsistent, unpredictable, erratic; sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing with no apparent pattern.
What is hit-or-miss in Malayalam?
Hit-or-miss in Malayalam is ഒത്താലൊക്കട്ടെയെന്ന മട്ടിലുള്ള, അശ്രദ്ധമായ, ഒഴുക്കൻമട്ടിലുള്ള. See Hit-or-miss meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is hit-or-miss?
Hit-or-miss is an adjective.

Words near hit-or-miss in the dictionary

  1. hit-boxes
  2. hit-by-pitch
  3. hit-by-pitches
  4. hit-job
  5. hit-jobs
  6. hit-or-miss
  7. hit-or-miss transform
  8. hit-or-miss transforms
  9. hit-out
  10. hit-outs
  11. hit-parader

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hit-or-miss (page history and authors); hit-or-miss (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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