Errant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Roving, especially in search of adventure: knights errant.
  • adj. Straying from the proper course or standards: errant youngsters.
  • adj. Wandering outside the established limits: errant lambs.
  • adj. Aimless or irregular in motion: an errant afternoon breeze.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits
  • adj. prone to making errors
  • adj. utter, complete (negative); arrant
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
  • adj. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
  • adj. Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
  • n. One who wanders about.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wandering; roving; rambling: applied particularly to knights (knights errant) of the middle ages, who are represented as wandering about to seek adventures and display their heroism and generosity.
  • Deviating; straying from the straight, true, or right course; erring.
  • In zoology, free; not fixed; locomotory; specifically, pertaining to the Errantia; not tubicolous: as, the errant annelids.
  • Notorious; manifest: in this sense now spelled only arrant. See arrant, 2.
  • n. A knight errant.
  • Itinerant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable
  • adj. straying from the right course or from accepted standards
  • Equivalent
    Form
    arrant    knight-errant   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wandering    roving    notorious    downright    arrant    journeying    itinerant   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    aberrant    apparent    declarant    emerant    inherent    parent    transparent   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wayward    stray    truant    vagrant    eldest    repentant    runaway    erratic    fiery    misguided