Definition of arbitraries Arbitraries
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What does arbitraries mean?
Part of speech
🔤- arbitraries, noun, plural of arbitrary.
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| arbitrary - based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of the group into halves" | ||
| nonarbitrary, unarbitrary not subject to individual determination | ||
| absolute perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol" | ||
| whimsical, capricious, impulsive determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- arbitrary (Adjective)
Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random. - arbitrary (Adjective)
Determined by impulse rather than reason; heavy-handed. - arbitrary (Adjective)
Any and all possible. - arbitrary (Adjective)
Determined by independent arbiter.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- arbitrary (a.)
Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. - arbitrary (a.)
Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. - arbitrary (a.)
Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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arbitrary
Determined by impulse rather than reason.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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arbitrary
är′bi-trar-i, adj. not bound by rules: despotic, absolute, arising from accident rather than from rule, varying, uncertain.—adv. Ar′bitrarily.—n. Ar′bitrariness. [L. arbitrarius, arbiter.]
Part of speech
🔤- arbitrary, noun, singular of arbitraries.
