RANDOM
Adjective
Made, done, or happening without method or conscious decision.
"apparently random violence"
Statistics
governed by or involving equal chances for each item.
"a random sample of 100 households"
SYNONYMS: unsystematic, arbitrary, unmethodical, haphazard, unarranged, unplanned, undirected, casual, indiscriminate, non-specific, stray, erratic; More
chance, accidental, hit-and-miss;
serendipitous, fortuitous, contingent, adventitious;
non-linear, entropic, fractal;
rarealeatory, stochastic
"random spot checks"
antonyms: systematic, planned
(of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape.
2.
informal
odd, unusual, or unexpected.
"the class was hard but he was so random that it was always fun"
ORIGIN
Middle English (in the sense ‘impetuous headlong rush’): from Old French randon ‘great speed’, from randir ‘gallop’, from a Germanic root shared by rand.
... Let's not overlook how difficult nigh impossible it to respond directly while remaining random a fact some seem keen even dead set on ignoring which is why this is the last time I bother explaining anything.