ETYM Cf. French électif.
1. Not compulsory.
2. Subject to popular election; SYN. elected.
1. Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
2. Taken haphazardly
Specifically, a reference to an arbitrary or unpredictable situation or event. The term is also given an extended, pejorative or semi-pejorative meaning, however, in which it is used in the sense of nonspecific, incoherent, poorly organized, loser, and so on.