Dictionary Entry
arbitrary
arbitrary is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
- 2adjective
Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.
- 3adjective
Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
- 4adjective
based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
"an arbitrary decision"
"the arbitrary rule of a dictator"
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