arrant
pronunciation
How to pronounce arrant in British English:
UK [ˈærənt]
How to pronounce arrant in American English:
US [ˈærənt]
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- Adjective:
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Word Origin
- arrant
- arrant: [16] Arrant is an alteration of errant, as in knight errant. This originally meant ‘roaming, wandering’, but its persistent application to nouns with negative connotations, such as rogue and thief, gradually drove its meaning downwards by association, to ‘notorious’.=> errant
- arrant (adj.)
- late 14c., variant of errant (q.v.); at first merely derogatory, "wandering, vagrant;" then (1540s) acquiring a meaning "thoroughgoing, downright, notorious."
Example
- 1. Don 't trust him ; he is an arrant hypocrite .
- 2. Abhor the arrant whore of rome .
- 3. The girl kept arrant all the time .
- 4. The arrant boy tries to fry the dry clear .
- 5. It will wore off any arrant magic .