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View synonyms for hit-and-miss

hit-and-miss

[ hit-n-mis ]

adjective

  1. sometimes successful or rewarding and sometimes not.


hit-and-miss

adjective

  1. informal.
    random; haphazard Alsohit or miss

    a hit-and-miss affair

    the technique is very hit and miss

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hit-and-miss1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

I am abroad, in places where communication with the wider world has been a bit hit-and-miss.

Man does not have to follow nature's slow hit-and-miss method of developing more desirable qualities in her products.

The governors employed for the "hit-and-miss" type are either "inertia" or "centrifugal" governors.

For small motors, one of the most widely used admission devices is that of the "hit-and-miss" type.

The second form is more widely used, and is applicable to engines having "hit-and-miss" or variable admission devices.

It had all one common mark; it was all "the church," but the hit-and-miss of it, its lightning change, bewildered him.

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