ARBITRARY
Dictionary entry overview: What does arbitrary mean? • ARBITRARY (adjective)
The adjective ARBITRARY has 1 sense:
1. based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
Familiarity information: ARBITRARY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ARBITRARY (adjective)
Meaning:
Based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
Context examples:
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
Similar:
absolute (not limited by law)
capricious; impulsive; whimsical (determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason)
discretional; discretionary (having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment)
Antonym:
nonarbitrary (not subject to individual determination)
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