random
adjective
[ ˈrandəm ]
• made, done, or happening without method or conscious decision.
• "apparently random violence"
• unfamiliar or unspecified.
• "are you going to take some random guy on Twitter's word?"
random
noun
• an unknown, unspecified, or odd person.
• "I just sat down by myself and talked to some randoms"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘impetuous headlong rush’): from Old French randon ‘great speed’, from randir ‘gallop’, from a Germanic root shared by rand2.
at random
• without method or conscious decision.
• "he opened the book at random"
Similar:
unsystematically,
arbitrarily,
randomly,
without prearrangement,
without method,
unmethodically,
haphazardly,
without conscious choice,
leaving things to chance,
out of a hat,
by lot,
