Meanings
adjectivehaphazardous (comparative more haphazardous, superlative most haphazardous)
comparative more haphazardous · superlative most haphazardous
- haphazard
A superstitious person might have thought it unfortunate that her partner in this speculative industry (as in Wilbur’s disastrous rolling‐mills) was that charming but too haphazardous man of the world, George Amberson.
1920, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Doubleday, Page & Company, page 422
Origin
From haphazard + -ous, influenced by hazardous.
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