Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an arbitrary manner; at will; capriciously; without sufficient reason; in an irresponsible or despotic way.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an arbitrary manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a random manner
Etymologies
- arbitrary + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is worth remembering that mine is still the only "official" Parliamentary game a title arbitrarily bestowed on myself, as I ran a Parliamentary Fantasy League last season and of course ran a Parliamentary World Cup so please do ensure you register using the code here before playing.”
“But in the law of war, according to the courts, killing arbitrarily is okay; capturing arbitrarily is not.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Defamation by Government Still Political Question
“They seem to feel that a symbol is some mysterious thing put in arbitrarily by the writer to frighten the common reader — sort of a literary Masonic grip that is only for the initiated …”
“Associated Press Tony Kushner The more carefully I scrutinized the press release announcing that Mr. Kushner was to be the first recipient of "the Mimi," to use the nickname arbitrarily bestowed upon the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award by its creators, the more puzzled I became.”
“The only vote they should have is on whether they want their prison term arbitrarily extended or not.”
“I always suspected that if Poetry is inherently a matter of interconnections (what we Pinoys also call pakikiramdam and what I lately have been calling algebraic as a result of three months of tutoring a 13-year-old boy in four years worth of math), such a book can hold together -- also recall Gertrude Stein's observation (I paraphrase) about how a word arbitrarily placed next to another word will rub together for some unexpected frisson if not generate some meaning.”
“Most of the cast die heroically, stupidly, or arbitrarily, which is realistic enough.”
“The figure of Christ has thus become something more than a mere name arbitrarily given by us to some nameless god.”
“Slashing payments to physicians arbitrarily, which is what IPAB would do, would only serve to drive doctors out of Medicare and therefore make it more difficult for seniors to get access to care.”
“If you find the idea of arbitrarily changing the date of Easter an offensive prospect, let us (in short) remember that this was but an ingenious April Fool's joke, and this weak and idle theme no more yielding but a dream - and then, perhaps we can take a moment to consider more seriously certain benefits that might avail to us if we did reconsider the date of Easter.”
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EN - academic vocabulary
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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semiotics, behemothic, resplendent, allegiant, visceral, ratiocination, promontory, amaranthine, pharmacopoeia, dichotomy, haematomesis, uxorios and 157 more...
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Pleasing words
A list of miscellaneous words, fitting in no exact theme, that I happen to enjoy.
portmanteau, aesthetic, deviation, conglomerate, treachery, soluble, bildungsroman, soliloquy, irrevocable, effervescent, phrontistery, aeipathy and 180 more...
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Letters, October-December
Interesting words from communications between me and boychild from October to December 2008.
cunnilingus, transcendentalism, snakecharm, snork, gaggle, efterklang, lamé, arbitrarily, ramsey, gothish, prettyboy, purification and 25 more...
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Mogeltron
Miscellaneous idiolect that could be used to assemble a Whichbe simulator.
point of skew, character as fate, doubt for doubt, story of my life, cumulative effect, default settings, reasonable, or tr..., take care, relative proportion, is that so, cognitive bias, and whatnot and 41 more...
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Bill Bryson's
From 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'
recondite, plaudit, vitiated, dephlogisticate, phlox, terraqueous, arbitrarily, lucrative, mephitic, edifice, tardy, scruple and 17 more...
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csda7's list
extempore, doppelganger, esoteric, vagabond, query, napalm, arbitrarily
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