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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without plan or organization |
| Synonyms: | accidental, aimless, all over the map, any old way, any which way, arbitrary, careless, casual, chance, designless, desultory, devil-may-care, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, fluke, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, loose, offhand, purposeless, random, reckless, slapdash, slipshod, spontaneous, sudden, unconcerned, unconscious, unconsidered, uncoordinated, unexpected, unmethodical, unorganized, unpremeditated, unsystematic, unthinking, willy-nilly |
| Antonyms: | careful, designed, intentional, methodical, organized, planned, straight, systematic, thought-out |
| Main Entry: | haywire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken; crazy |
| Synonyms: | amiss, amok, batty, berserk, bonkers*, chaotic, confused, cracked, crazed, defective, disordered, disorganized, erratic, flipped, in a mess, in pieces, insane, mad, messy, nuts, orderless, out of order, out of whack, out to lunch, psycho, schizo, screwball, screwy, touched*, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, wacky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | iffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncertain |
| Synonyms: | capricious, chancy, conditional, dicey, doubtful, erratic, fluctuant, in lap of gods, incalculable, problematic, undecided, unpredictable, unsettled, up in the air, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, reliable, sure |
| Main Entry: | incalculable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | countless, limitless |
| Synonyms: | boundless, capricious, chancy, enormous, erratic, fluctuant, iffy, immense, incomputable, inestimable, infinite, innumerable, jillion, measureless, no end of, no end to, numberless, uncertain, uncountable, unfixed, unforeseen, unpredictable, unreckonable, untold, vast, whimsical, without number, zillion |
| Antonyms: | calculable, countable, limited, measurable |
| Main Entry: | inconsistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contradictory, irregular |
| Synonyms: | at odds, at variance, capricious, changeable, conflicting, contrary, discordant, discrepant, dissonant, erratic, fickle, illogical, in conflict, incoherent, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconstant, irreconcilable, lubricious, mercurial, out of step, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unstable, variable, warring |
| Antonyms: | consistent, consonant, regular, steady, unchanging |
| Main Entry: | inconstant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changeable |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeful, erratic, fickle, flickering, fluctuating, impulsive, inconsistent, intermittent, irregular, irresolute, mercurial, shifting, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, vacillating, variable, varying, volatile, waffling, wavering |
| Main Entry: | indirect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roundabout; unintended |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, circumlocutory, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long way home, long-drawn-out, long-winded, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, periphrastic, rambling, secondary, serpentine, sidelong, sinister, sinuous, snaking, sneaking, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, twisting, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | irregular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random, variable |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, aimless, capricious, casual, changeable, designless, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, eccentric, erratic, faltering, fitful, fluctuating, fragmentary, haphazard, hit-or-miss, inconstant, indiscriminate, infrequent, intermittent, jerky, nonuniform, occasional, out of order, patchy, purposeless, recurrent, shaky, shifting, spasmodic, sporadic, uncertain, unconsidered, uneven, unmethodical, unpunctual, unreliable, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, up and down, weaving |
| Antonyms: | conventional, methodical, regular, systematic |
| Main Entry: | mercurial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flighty, temperamental |
| Synonyms: | blowing hot and cold, bubbleheaded, buoyant, capricious, changeable, effervescent, elastic, erratic, expansive, fickle, flaky, flip*, fluctuating, gaga, gay, impulsive, inconstant, irregular, irrepressible, lighthearted, lively, lubricious, mad, mobile, movable, quicksilver, resilient, short-fuse, spirited, sprightly, ticklish, unpredictable, unstable, up-and-down, variable, volatile, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | calm, tranquil, unchangeable, unperturbable, unvarying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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