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"an arbitrary decision" "the arbitrary rule of a dictator" "an arbitrary penalty" "of arbitrary size and shape" "an arbitrary choice" "arbitrary division of the group into halves"adjectivebased on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or capriceOpposite:
Definition that contains arbitrary
- symbol an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
- liberty immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
- phase a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle
- countdown counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle)
- gender a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
- autonomy immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
- oppressive marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
- tyrannical marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
- tyrannous marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
- doctrinaire a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions