Get to know Arrant better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like complete or unadulterated.
Arrant in a sentence
Arrant meaning
- Complete; downright; utter.
- Very bad; despicable.
- Obsolete form of errant (“roving around; wandering”).
Synonyms of Arrant
Using Arrant
- The main meaning on this page is: Complete; downright; utter. | Very bad; despicable. | Obsolete form of errant (“roving around; wandering”).
- Useful related words include: complete, unadulterated, utter, thoroughgoing.
- In the example corpus, arrant often appears in combinations such as: arrant nonsense.
Context around Arrant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Arrant
- In this selection, "arrant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, night, nonsense and provocation stand out and add context to how "arrant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include anthology night arrant as well and is an arrant provocation of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "arrant" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with arrant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That is arrant nonsense! (4 words)
Not only were both bits of legal advice “entirely untenable”, they were also “arrant nonsense”, furnishing “no threads for military clothes”. (21 words)
What is going on is an arrant provocation of people and those instigating this orgy of violence may be waiting to accomplish their ultimate objective, namely the forcible annexation of the country. (32 words)
They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hairsplitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. (39 words)
Other references to these alternate Oerths appear in the Gord the Rogue short story anthology Night Arrant as well as in Gygax's Epic of Aerth campaign setting for the Dangerous Journeys roleplaying game. (34 words)
What is going on is an arrant provocation of people and those instigating this orgy of violence may be waiting to accomplish their ultimate objective, namely the forcible annexation of the country. (32 words)
That is arrant nonsense! (4 words)
Example sentences (5)
Not only were both bits of legal advice “entirely untenable”, they were also “arrant nonsense”, furnishing “no threads for military clothes”.
That is arrant nonsense!
What is going on is an arrant provocation of people and those instigating this orgy of violence may be waiting to accomplish their ultimate objective, namely the forcible annexation of the country.
Other references to these alternate Oerths appear in the Gord the Rogue short story anthology Night Arrant as well as in Gygax's Epic of Aerth campaign setting for the Dangerous Journeys roleplaying game.
They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hairsplitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine.
Common combinations with arrant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: