arbitrarily
27
5.5
- adverb
- /ˌɑːrbɪˈtrɛrɪli/
:
arbitrariamente
- The titles were arbitrarily selected from the lists of ILL requests from previous years.
- arbitrarily selected
- arbitrarily chosen
- arbitrarily set
And in that sense we can choose one surface of now pretty arbitrarily and ask what happened.
- And in that sense we can choose one surface of now pretty arbitrarily and ask what happened.
- Most of us have these beliefs that just were planted by somebody arbitrarily.
- I suppose that was arbitrarily chosen.
- They are primarily interested in holding power and the things that it will get them, and they rule arbitrarily.
- Some are being arbitrarily deciding what is good and bad.
- And then mine just arbitrarily became there's this long white couch.
Examples
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Companies don't arbitrarily put products on shelves and keep them there if they don't sell.
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The teacher seemed to arbitrarily change the rules of the game without informing the students.
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It's just like the Mean Girls just arbitrarily decide we like them.
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So right now, college is just kind of arbitrarily structured into four years.
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The researchers then arbitrarily divided the words that the children wrote into nine categories.
Academic text (1999) -
Instead, he spends his time racing off to court seeking a ban on those things he arbitrarily feels is bad for us.
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The boundaries were arbitrarily drawn regardless of the ethnic and political history of the people.
Academic text (1991) -
Patients without a follow-up measurement were arbitrarily assigned a change of zero.
Academic text (1992) -
And so there's no reason we can't build arbitrarily great intelligences.
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Interest rates rise and fall arbitrarily, and a continually inflated money supply wipes out the value of lifelong savings.
Synonyms
126
2.4
In a way that has no clear plan or order
44
2.7
By chance, without any plan or order
22
6.7
Doing things without careful choice or noticing differences
12
4.9
In many different directions in a messy, random way
9
6.1
In a way that is not planned or organized
4
4.2
Happens at different times and not in a steady way
3
4.1
In a way that is not the same each time
2
7.7
In a way that changes suddenly for no clear reason
1
8.2
In a random, messy way without a plan
1
6.8
In a random way with no clear reason
A way of acting that has no order or plan
In a way that uses random chance to choose results
Antonyms
How Arbitrary
27
5.5
2
7.7
9
6.1
126
2.4
320
3.7
75
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Arbitrarily comes from the Latin root arbiter, meaning 'judge' or 'one who decides', and is related to the English word arbitrator. So, to do something arbitrarily is to do it by someone's choice rather than by a clear rule or plan.