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au hasard — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • aimlessly adverb In a manner without purpose or direction.
  • random adj Happening or chosen without any particular pattern, plan, or reason.

Senses

au hasard is used for these senses in English:

  • aimlessly Without an aim, purpose or direction; in an aimless manner.
  • at random Randomly, haphazardly.
  • random (statistics) Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.

random — full definition

  1. adj Happening or chosen without any particular pattern, plan, or reason.
  2. adj Describes an outcome that can't be predicted in advance, though it may follow known odds.
  3. adj Informal: odd, unexpected, or unrelated to what came before.

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