Random

Noun

 * 1)  Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.10:
 * And therwith two of them dressid their sperys, and Ulfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres, and ranne to gyder with grete raundon.
 * 1)  The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.
 * 2) * 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 144:
 * Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random.
 * 1)  An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
 * The party was boring. It was full of randoms.

Synonyms

 * force, momentum, speed, velocity
 * nobody, nonentity

Adjective

 * 1) Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
 * The flip of a fair coin is purely random.
 * The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.
 * The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.
 * 1)  Of or relating to probability distribution.
 * A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased.
 * 1)  Pseudorandom in contrast to truly random; mimicking the result of random selection.
 * The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
 * 1)  Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
 * A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
 * 1)  Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause, or reason.
 * That was a completely random comment.
 * The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but random.
 * The narrative takes a random course.
 * 1)  Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
 * You're so random!

Synonyms

 * stochastic
 * pseudorandom
 * average, typical
 * arbitrary, unexpected, unplanned
 * arbitrary, unexpected, unplanned

Derived terms

 * at random
 * non-random
 * pseudorandom
 * randomise, randomize
 * randomness


 * randomnitude
 * random number
 * randomology
 * randomosity

Thesaurus
accidental, adventitious, adventitiously, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, any which way, anyhow, anywise, arbitrarily, arbitrary, around, at random, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, by chance, capricious, casual, casually, causeless, chance, chance-medley, chancy, chaotic, confused, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, driftless, dysteleological, erratic, erratically, fitful, foggy, formless, fortuitous, fortuitously, frivolous, fuzzy, general, gratuitous, haphazard, haphazardly, hazy, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incidental, incidentally, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indefinitely, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indiscriminately, indistinct, inexact, inexplicable, irregular, irregularly, lax, loose, meaningless, mindless, misshapen, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, occasional, occasionally, odd, orderless, planless, potluck, promiscuous, purposeless, random shot, randomly, senseless, serendipitous, serendipitously, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray, sweeping, systemless, unaccountable, unarranged, uncalculated, unclassified, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unplanned, unpremeditated, unpremeditatedly, unsorted, unspecific, unspecified, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, unsystematically, ununiform, vague, veiled, wandering

Etymology
From raundon:, from  randon:, from randir: ( > French randonnée:), of  origin, from  *undefined: from  from  from. See.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"r{nd@m/}}

Noun

 * Estonian: suvakas
 * Finnish:


 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 野次馬

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: willekeurig
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: պատահական (patahakan)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tilfældig
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: aleatora, ,
 * Estonian: juhuslik, suvaline
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Irish: fánach, teagmhasach
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ;
 * Macedonian: случаен
 * Mongolian: таамгаар
 * Norwegian: tilfeldig, tilfellelig, tilfelleleg
 * Polish: przypadkowy, losowy
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: nasumice, proizvoljno
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian: պատահական (patahakan)
 * Esperanto: aleatora
 * Finnish:
 * French: aléatoire, stochastique
 * Greek:


 * Japanese: ; 無作為, ランダム
 * Macedonian: случаен
 * Norwegian: tilfeldig, tilfellelig, tilfelleleg
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French: pseudo-aléatoire
 * Japanese:, ランダム


 * Macedonian: случаен, псевдослучаен
 * Norwegian: tilfeldig, tilfellelig, tilfelleleg
 * Russian: ,


 * Esperanto:, hazardeca
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: moyen
 * Japanese:, ;  平均的


 * Macedonian: случаен
 * Russian:, ,


 * Danish: overflødig, ligegyldig
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: sans queue ni tête, incohérent
 * Japanese:, 出任せ, 勝手気まま; 不可解


 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: бесцелен
 * Russian: неуместный


 * : (ʕašwā’ī)
 * : aleatori
 * : 随机 (suíjī)
 * : accidentel, imprévisible (1), au hasard, aléatoire (2), arbitraire
 * : ალალბედზე (alalbedze)
 * : אקראי (A'kra'i), אקראית (A'kra'it)
 * : यादृच्छिक (yaadhRchChika)
 * : אקראי (A'kra'i), אקראית (A'kra'it)
 * : यादृच्छिक (yaadhRchChika)


 * : rambang
 * : aleatoriu
 * : náhodný, náhodná , náhodné
 * : aleatorio, azaroso
 * : baghala, ovyoovyo
 * : slumpvis (1,4), slumpmässig (1,4)
 * : యాధృచ్ఛిక (yaadhRchChika) (1, 2, 3, 4)
 * : (mâi bói)
 * : rasgele,gelisiguzel (1-5)
 * : slumpvis (1,4), slumpmässig (1,4)
 * : యాధృచ్ఛిక (yaadhRchChika) (1, 2, 3, 4)
 * : (mâi bói)
 * : rasgele,gelisiguzel (1-5)

Anagrams

 * mandor, rodman