Yes it is. It means not by choice or purpose. (It is an idiomatic adverb when used with the preposition at, i.e. at random = randomly)
E.g. There was a random power outage. / The message she sent contained random words.
"Random" is an adjective.
The random duck, who had just had surgery, was attacked by a fellow seagull.
The adjective random describes something chosen without method or conscious decision; something involving equal chances for each item; or made with something of irregular size or shape. Example sentence: I picked a random question and answered it.
random in science terms means random duhhh. :) random is random in every language or subjects
haphazard, chance (adj.), accidental, adventitious, aimless, arbitrary, casual, designless, fluky, fortuitous, incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, objectless, odd, purposeless, slapdash, unaimed, unconsidered, unplanned, unpremeditated
"Random" is an adjective.
Random is an adjective and noun combination!
Randomly is an adverb. Random is an adjective. He randomly started screaming. Randomly describes screaming, therefore is an adverb, since screaming is a verb. an adverb is a word that describes a verb. That was random. Random describes that, therefore is an adjective. An adjective describes a noun. That is a noun.
The noun form of the adjective random is "randomness."
The majority of the time the word random is used as an adjective.
The random duck, who had just had surgery, was attacked by a fellow seagull.
"Fortuitus" is the Latin equivalent of "random."Specifically, this word is the masculine singular form of an adjective. The feminine form is "fortuita." The neuter form is "fortuitum." But whatever its gender and whether it be in the singular or plural form, the adjective also may be translated as "accidental, causal, fortuitous."
The likely word may be the noun coincidence (a chance or random occurrence). The adjective form is coincidental.
The adjective random describes something chosen without method or conscious decision; something involving equal chances for each item; or made with something of irregular size or shape. Example sentence: I picked a random question and answered it.
Many verbs do not have opposites. The opposite could only be "to not aim."The adjective aimed can have the opposites random, or haphazard.
Wikipedia states that stochastic means random. But there are differences depending on the context. Stochastic is used as an adjective, as in stochastic process, stochastic model, or stochastic simulation, with the meaning that phenomena as analyzed has an element of uncertainty or chance (random element). If a system is not stochastic, it is deterministic. I may consider a phenomena is a random process and analyze it using a stochastic simulation model. When we generate numbers using a probability distribution, these are called random numbers, or pseudo random numbers. They can also be called random deviates. See related links.
No. It is neither vivid nor an adjective; it is the simple past tense form of a descriptive verb.To be an adjective, it has to modify a noun; to be vivid, it has to create a striking picture in the reader's imagination. 'Walked' does neither.An example of a vivid adjective would be 'rushing', as in rushing ants: it modifies the (plural) noun 'ants' and gives the reader a mental picture of an ant colony darting about at random.