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randomish

randomish adjective: somewhat random; quite random.

Adjective

randomish (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat random; quite random.
    • Why then,” said John, “ it was my son Jonathan; and I wish they had tooken him to the watch-house-whereby my horses would have been all the better for it—for my son Jonathan is but a randomish sort of a chap.”1825, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals for the Year ... - Volume 2 - Page 136
    • They were rather a skylarking, randomish, set of blades, were the midshipmen in that ship.1844, Author unknown, Colburn's States service magazine, Volume 1862, page 384

Examples of randomish in a sentence

  • So if you analyze a price series, you will see movements that are kind of randomish, unanticipated.2001, Lisa R. Lattuca, Creating Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary Research ... - Page 158:
  • You can select particular songs and play them. i/ Shuffle: Plays the tracks on your CD in a random (or randomish) fashion, like the shuffle button on your home CD player.2003, Danny Briere, Hurley, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PC For Dummies - Page 174
  • Find what's odd in litter's randomish settlements.2015, Madhur Anand, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes:

Forms of randomish

alternative formrandom-ish

Origin of randomish

From random + -ish.

Questions about randomish

What does randomish mean?
Randomish means somewhat random; quite random.
How do you use randomish in a sentence?
So if you analyze a price series, you will see movements that are kind of randomish, unanticipated.
What part of speech is randomish?
Randomish is an adjective.

Words near randomish in the dictionary

  1. randomise
  2. randomised
  3. randomiser
  4. randomisers
  5. randomises
  6. randomish
  7. randomising
  8. randomista
  9. randomistas
  10. randomities
  11. randomity

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