taken haphazardly; " a random choice"

lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; " a random choice"; " bombs fell at random"; " random movements"

Force; violence.

Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.

The direction of a rake- vein.

Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.

A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; - commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.

Want of definite aim or method; chance.

Done without definite aim; left to chance; as, a random shot; aimless; at random, without direction or method; aimlessly.

Done or uttered at hazard: left to chance.

At random, without definite direction or purpose.

Done or uttered at hazard.

Aimless; casual.

Done at hazard; left to chance; done or uttered without previous calculation. At random, without definite aim. Random- shot, a shot discharged at random without any direct aim.

Want of direction, rule, or method; chance.

Done at hazard, or without settled aim, purpose, or calculation; left to chance; done or uttered without previous calculation.

Want of direction; chance; at random.

Without external guidance; without settled aim or purpose.

The name of the Marquis de Suarez, when she uttered it, had been but a shaft hurled at random. – The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

The young child now takes a current word into use, a little at random, and now makes a new one, so as to save the interruption of a pause for search. – Essays by Alice Meynell

The lad spoke to her, giving expression to his sympathy, and she accepted it; but she said such strange things, and answered him so utterly at random, that he began to fear that grief had turned her brain. – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

You are a mere child, a baby, you speak at random. – A Little Rebel by Mrs. Hungerford

How little did the speaker of those few and random words know what courage he had given to a drooping heart, what renewed energy to a breaking spirit! – Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Lever

I answered her at random. – The Delectable Duchy by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

It was a coincidence that there should be a band of nurses on board the ship, with costumes almost precisely like hers and the Head Sister's, chosen apparently at random by John Hasle: but then, after all, there was a strong resemblance in the dresses of all nurses, provided the colours happened to be the same. – Lord John in New York by C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson

The random shot had told. – A Son of the Immortals by Louis Tracy

Are you there, Random? – The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume

To rush at random into the immense- burning building would have been madness. – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

The speaker that fires his force and emphasis at random into a sentence will not get results. – The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

Crooked Nose knew better than to shoot at random. – The Silent Places by Steward Edward White

You will remember, Baron, I said, speaking at random, but gravely, and as though some special meaning lurked in my words, that this young lady comes of a race who do not readily change. – The Master Mummer by E. Phillips Oppenheim

This plate shall be the " cup," we will so say, of the candle; this spirit shall be our fuel; and I am about to place this chimney over it, because it is better for me to do so than to let things proceed at random. – The Chemical History Of A Candle by Michael Faraday

Several plantation houses along the west coast had been burned, and through the rain random gunfire could still be heard as slaves were being pursued. – Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

And so on he takes us, apparently at random, through the whole range of his sense impressions. – The Poet's Poet by Elizabeth Atkins

Plainly Mataafa does not act at random. – The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson Other: Andrew Lang

" No, of course not," said Arthur, answering almost at random, and thinking how best he might explain the sacrifice which he had made without taking too much credit to himself. – The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope