hit-and-missadjective
uk/ˌhɪt.ənˈmɪs/us/ˌhɪt.ənˈmɪs/also hit-or-missIf something is hit-and-miss, you cannot depend on it to be of good quality, on time, accurate, etc.:
The trains are often late, so getting to work on time is a fairly hit-and-miss affair.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Chance and randomness
- accident
- arbitrary
- as luck would have it idiom
- be the luck of the draw idiom
- casual
- circumstance
- fortuitous
- haphazard
- happen
- happenstance
- harum-scarum
- lottery
- more by accident than design idiom
- more by luck than judgment idiom
- one in a million idiom
- postcode lottery
- pot luck
- serendipity
- stochastic
- stumble into sth
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