adjective, noun
adjective [usuallybeforenoun] done, chosen, etc. without sb thinking or deciding in advance what is going to happen:
the random killing of innocent people * a random sample / selection (= in which each thing has an equal chance of being chosen) * The information is processed in a random order.
randomly adverb:
The winning numbers are randomly selected by computer.
randomness noun [U]:
It introduced an element of randomness to the situation.
Part of speech: noun
IDIOMS
at random without thinking or deciding in advance what is going to happen:
She opened the book at random (= not at any particular page) and started reading. * The terrorists fired into the crowd at random. * Names were chosen at random from a list.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for random is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is random a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, random is tagged as noun.
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