haphazardPronunciation: /hapˈhazəd/Translate haphazard | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of haphazard adjective lacking any obvious principle of organization:the music business works in a haphazard fashionDerivatives haphazardly adverb haphazardness noun Origin: late 16th century: from hap + hazardhaphazard in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of haphazard in the US English dictionary