Arrant

Word ARRANT
Character 6
Hyphenation ar rant
Pronunciations /ˈæɹənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Arrant"

What do we mean by arrant?

Completely such; thoroughgoing. adjective

Wandering; itinerant; vagrant; errant: as, a knight arrant; an arrant preacher: especially in thief arrant or arrant thief, a roving, outlawed robber; a highwayman. Now written errant.

Notorious; manifest; unmitigated; downright: in a bad sense (derived from the noun qualified): as, an arrant rogue; an arrant coward; arrant nonsense.

Thorough; downright; genuine: in a good sense.

Synonyms Utter, rank, consummate, perfect.

Notoriously or preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated. adjective

Thorough or downright, in a good sense. adjective

Utter; complete. adjective

Alternative spelling of errant. adjective

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers adjective

Utter; complete (with a negative sense).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Arrant

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The word "arrant" in example sentences

Event 2: We say homosexuality is a variant sexuality which does no intrinsic harm to the consenting adults that practice it or anyone else outwith their relationship, rejecting in no uncertain terms your arrant presumption that you have the privilege to impose your morés on us -- or anyone else, for that matter -- and criticising your judgementalism as ethically retarded. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

For that matter, there were unmistakable signs in Sandy himself of what would have been called arrant terror in any other man. ❋ Max Brand (1918)

But this latest attack is the kind of arrant nonsense up with which I will not put! ❋ Bill Crider (2009)

The notion that requiring students to know and master orthodoxy stifles their lovely creativity is the kind of arrant nonsense I hear from my teenagers all the time and really just because they want to avoid work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Give another word in place of "arrant" that will mean the same thing. ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

"See here, Dan," the big man went on, leaning forward; "I knowed what your arrant was the fust minute I clapped eyes on you. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Accusing Anderson of anti-Semitism is arrant nonsense. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course, the idea that Data can think without feeling emotions is arrant nonsense - you can't have one without the other. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you want your questions to be taken seriously then you would do well to start by asking them without the arrant nonsense of paranoid fantasies in which the SyFy Channel has "recoiled in craven fear and trembling" before the intimidatory might of GLAAD's "homosex activists" (aka the Elders of Sodom, Media Division.) ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

As he talked, he forgot to smoke, and, leaning quite casually against the chair, with arrant carelessness allowed the live coal at the end of his cigar to rest against the tip of one of Kwaque's twisted fingers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An arrant flirt the little hussy is; but very pretty. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is an arrant assumption that is utterly fatuous. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

And yet here am I, wilting before him, an arrant coward, with no respect for him and less for myself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like, the fact that saying you "look forward" to organising the appearance date is an arrant presumption that further pisses me off. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

He was like an old and irritable man, annoyed by the turbulence of their young spirits that was to him arrant silliness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The splendid business organization of many industries is counterbalanced by the arrant idiocy of the political organization; the happiness and comfort of Fifth Avenue, by the sorrow and misery of the East Side; the swiftness and ease to go places, by the absurd distances between places and the ridiculous number of places; the facility to enjoy things, by the inability to stop long enough to enjoy things. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“I have worked, I do work,” I cried impetuously, as though he were my judge and I required vindication, and at the same time very much aware of my arrant idiocy in discussing the subject at all. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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