Haphazard vs Adventitious - What's the difference?
haphazard | adventitious |
random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 30:
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
* 1985 , , H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons , page 101
As adjectives the difference between haphazard and adventitious
is that haphazard is random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent while adventitious is from an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.haphazard
English
Adjective
(-)- Do not make such haphazard changes to the settings; instead, adjust the knobs carefully, a bit at a time.
Antonyms
* systematicadventitious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.
- The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;