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randomly

[ran-duhm-lee] / ˈræn dəm li /
ADVERB
anyhow
Synonyms
STRONGEST
anyway
WEAK
about any which way around at any rate at random haphazard haphazardly helter-skelter however in any case in any respect in any way in either way in one way or another in whatever way nevertheless random regardless under any circumstances whatever happens willy-nilly
ADVERB
casually
Synonyms
STRONGEST
aimlessly
WEAK
haphazardly inconstantly
ADVERB
every which way
Synonyms
STRONGEST
haphazardly
WEAK
all over the place at every turn everyway everywhere everywhither in all directions in all manner of ways in every quarter indiscriminately irregularly
ADVERB
haphazardly
Synonyms
STRONGEST
aimlessly carelessly casually
WEAK
accidentally by chance inconstantly
ADVERB
helter-skelter
Synonyms
STRONGEST
haphazard headlong jumbled
WEAK
about any which way anyhow anywise around at random cluttered disorderly hastily higgledy-piggledy hit-or-miss hotfoot hurriedly impetuously in confusion incautiously incontinently irregular muddled pell-mell random rashly recklessly topsy-turvy tumultuously unmindfully wildly
Antonyms
WEAK
carefully methodical organized straight systematic
ADVERB
incoherently
Synonyms
WEAK
aimlessly ambiguously brokenly chaotically confusedly disconnectedly discontinuously disjointedly drunkenly frantically frenziedly illegibly illogically incomprehensibly indistinctly ineptly sloppily spasmodically uncertainly unclearly unintelligibly unrecognizably unsystematically wildly

Example Sentences

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“They were just randomly grabbing people,” he recalled.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

The goalposts change if, say, you randomly asked your friend to pick lottery numbers and you won $1 million.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Participants were randomly assigned to take either solriamfetol or a placebo on workdays over a four-week period.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

We found the same pattern in three online experiments in which participants played the role of complaint handlers and were randomly shown either an original complaint or an AI-edited version of the same complaint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

I let my mind randomly fill in the details.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton