prep_phrase
Meaning 1
Randomly, haphazardly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
at random
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adverb
Meaning 2
in a random manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the houses were randomly scattered
- bullets were fired into the crowd at random
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy-nilly, arbitrarily, every which way
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَشْوَائِيًّا (ʕašwāʔiyyan) — randomly
- Danish: tilfældigt — randomly
- Danish: vilkårligt — randomly
- Dutch: à la dol — randomly
- Esperanto: hazarde — randomly
- Finnish: umpimähkään — randomly
- Finnish: satunnaisesti — randomly
- Finnish: sattumanvaraisesti — randomly
- French: au hasard — randomly
- French: de manière aléatoire — randomly
- French: aléatoirement — randomly
- Galician: ó chou — randomly
- Galician: ás baroutas — randomly
- Galician: ás toas — randomly
- Galician: a esmo — randomly
- German: zufällig — randomly
- German: willkürlich — randomly
- German: wahllos — randomly
- German: stichprobenartig — randomly
- German: stichprobenhaft — randomly
- German: aufs Geratewohl — randomly
- Greek: τυχαία (tychaía) — randomly
- Ancient Greek: εἰκῇ (eikēî) — randomly
- Italian: alla spicciolata — randomly
- Italian: in ordine sparso — randomly
- Italian: a casaccio — randomly
- Latin: temere — randomly
- Latin: per saturam — randomly
- Macedonian: од тепка (od tepka) — randomly
- Macedonian: на среќа (na sreḱa) — randomly
- Macedonian: напосоки (naposoki) — randomly
- Polish: na chybił trafił — randomly
- Polish: wyrywkowo — randomly
- Portuguese: a esmo — randomly
- Portuguese: ao acaso — randomly
- Portuguese: aleatoriamente — randomly
- Portuguese: randomicamente — randomly
- Slovak: náhodne — randomly
- Spanish: al azar — randomly
- Swedish: på högt — randomly
- Swedish: på måfå — randomly
- Thai: อย่างสุ่ม (yàang-sùm) — randomly