willy-nilly

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf Whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected; whether willingly or unwillingly.

   “Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.”

2. zarf Seemingly at random; haphazardly.

   “The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.”

3. sıfat That happens whether willingly or unwillingly.

   “[S]omeone saw thy willy-nilly nun / Vying a tress against our golden fern.”

4. sıfat Seemingly random; haphazard; arbitrary.