at random

Speech parts

1. at random - Adverb

2. at random - Phrase

Meaning

in a random manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

randomly arbitrarily indiscriminately haphazardly willy incidentally anyhow sometimes occasionally random arbitrary accidentally seldom periodically intermittently
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Antonyms

often ever always frequently regularly constantly
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Examples

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. André Malraux

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! Walter Scott

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. Angela Carter

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random. Donald Knuth

Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring. Henry Moore

Uncollected olives, left at random fill neither the saddle bag nor the little sack. Sicilian Proverb

Words in the phrase

at random

Close letter words and terms

at primary school at rack and manger at railway crossings at rapid-fire pace at rare intervals at reasonable cost