slapdash
/ˈslæpdæʃ/
slapdash adjective: produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
Adjective
slapdash (comparative more slapdash, superlative most slapdash)
- Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
- They had seen Poland, and that was the sort of slovenly, slapdash place they were used to, but once across the German frontier they found everything—crops, roads, buildings—uncannily different.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 114
- When you're in the front entrance, get a feel for what's going on. Tours are never timed to coincide with breaks but if there are any children milling about, see what they're up to. If they're on a dutiful errand, for example delivering registers, the school probably encourages a responsible...2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian
Adverb
slapdash (comparative more slapdash, superlative most slapdash)
- In a hasty or careless manner.
- Synonyms:
- carelessly, haphazardly, hastily
- Directly, right there; slap-bang.
- Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
- Synonyms:
- directly
- With a slap; all at once; slap.
- And yet, slap dash, is all again
In every sinew, nerve, and vein;
Runs here and there, like Hamlet's ghost1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC
- And yet, slap dash, is all again
Verb
slapdash (third-person singular simple present slapdashes, present participle slapdashing, simple past and past participle slapdashed)
- To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
- to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
- to slapdash a wall
slapdash meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
slapdash in Bengali
- এলোমেলো, তড়িঘড়ি, অযত্নে করা
slapdash in Malayalam
- slipshod, careless, hurried
- അശ്രദ്ധമായ, ഒഴുക്കൻമട്ടിലുള്ള, അലക്ഷ്യമായ, ആലോചന കൂടാതെയുള്ള, വന്നപാടെയുള്ള, അനിപുണമായ
Examples of slapdash in a sentence
- If they're play-fighting in the corridor without consequence, it tells a less impressive story and could mean a slapdash approach to discipline.2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
- Valérie Pisano, the chief executive of Mila – the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute – said the slapdash approach to safety in AI systems would not be tolerated in any other field.2023 May 2, Josh Taylor, Alex Hern, “‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation”, in The...
Synonyms of slapdash
Forms of slapdash
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more slapdash |
| superlative | most slapdash |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more slapdash |
| superlative | most slapdash |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | slapdashes |
| present participle | slapdashing |
| past participle | slapdashed |
| past | slapdashed |
Origin of slapdash
From slap + dash. First attested in the late 17th century, meaning "careless".
Words formed from slapdash
Words that rhyme with slapdash
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hash
- mash
- rash
- plash
- thrash
- cache
- gash
- gnash
- goulash
- pash
- rehash
- sash
- stash
- bash
- bedash
- brash
- fash
- ganache
- overlash
- potash
- abash
- backslash
- backsplash
- calash
- gatecrash
- Kash
- midrash
- mishmash
- panache
- shamash
- shash
- stramash
- taplash
- apache
- bardash
- berdache
- Chumash
- encash
- haberdash
- heat rash
- keysmash
- Lagash
- Malagash
- Miminegash
- newsflash
- outflash
- overrash
- pearlash
Questions about slapdash
- What does slapdash mean?
- Slapdash means produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
- What is slapdash in Bengali?
- Slapdash in Bengali is এলোমেলো, তড়িঘড়ি, অযত্নে করা. See Slapdash meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use slapdash in a sentence?
- If they're play-fighting in the corridor without consequence, it tells a less impressive story and could mean a slapdash approach to discipline.
- What part of speech is slapdash?
- Slapdash can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.
- How do you pronounce slapdash?
- Slapdash is pronounced /ˈslæpdæʃ/.
Words near slapdash in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: slapdash (page history and authors); slapdash (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slapdash (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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