Arrant \Ar"rant\, a. [OE. erraunt, errant, errand, equiv. to E.
errant wandering, which was first applied to vagabonds, as an
errant rogue, an errant thief, and hence passed gradually
into its present and worse sense. See Errant.]
Notoriously or pre["e]minently bad; thorough or downright, in
a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or
coward.
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I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. --Fuller.
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2. Thorough or downright, in a good sense. [Obs.]
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An arrant honest woman. --Burton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
arrant
adj : without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a
sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing
villain"; "utter nonsense" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a),
consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a),
perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a),
thoroughgoing(a), utter(a)]
WordNet (r) 2.0
185 Moby Thesaurus words for "arrant":
abject, abominable, absolute, atrocious, awful, bad, barefaced,
base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, black, blamable,
blameworthy, blatant, bold, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, brutal,
cheesy, classical, complete, conspicuous, consummate, contemptible,
crass, criminal, crummy, damnable, dark, debased, decided,
definitive, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable,
dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, downright, dreadful,
egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious,
flagrant, flat-out, foul, fulsome, glaring, grave, grievous, gross,
hanging out, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, improper,
impudent, in relief, in the foreground, infamous, infernal,
iniquitous, intolerable, knavish, lamentable, little, loathsome,
lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, miserable,
monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notable, noticeable,
notorious, obnoxious, obtrusive, odious, offensive, ostensible,
out-and-out, outrageous, outright, outstanding, overbold, paltry,
peccant, perfect, petty, pitiable, pitiful, plain, poky, poor,
positive, precious, profound, prominent, pronounced, proper, pure,
rank, regrettable, regular, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian,
repulsive, rotten, sad, salient, scabby, scandalous, schlock,
scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shattering,
sheer, shocking, shoddy, sinful, small, sordid, squalid, staring,
stark, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, superlative,
surpassing, terrible, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing,
too bad, total, unabashed, unbearable, unblushing, unclean,
unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, unforgivable,
unmentionable, unmitigated, unpardonable, unqualified, unrelieved,
unspeakable, unspoiled, unworthy, utter, vicious, vile, villainous,
wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), staring(a), stark(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a)
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