Definitions for hit-and-miss

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Spelling: [hit-n-mis]
IPA: /ˈhɪt nˈmɪs/

Hit-And-Miss is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 486 anagrams from letters in hit-and-miss (--adhiimnsst).

Definitions for hit-and-miss

adjective

  1. sometimes successful or rewarding and sometimes not.

Origin of hit-and-miss

First recorded in 1895-1900

Examples for hit-and-miss

The temperature should be regulated by means of the hit-and-miss ventilators at the floor level.

To bring this atmosphere about the worker in the store may no more be the result of hit-and-miss than the right sort of hiring.

There is no possibility of disguising the fact that an experimental philosophy of life means a hit-and-miss philosophy in the end.

Therefore, a kerosene engine of the hit-and-miss type should be avoided.

The list is in the highest degree a hit-and-miss selection and the more casual it is, the better for the purpose in hand.

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

There are never two hit-and-miss patterns that are exactly alike.

But Germany has learned a great deal during two years of hit-and-miss submarine campaigns.

Obviously, the hiring of workers for an enterprise as huge as Macy's cannot be conducted on any hit-and-miss plan.

To look at a collection of hit-and-miss rugs one is reminded of the Croton shrub which has no two leaves alike.

Word Value for hit-and-miss
Scrable

6

Words with friends

5

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