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adjective
- 1. complete, utter: dated "what arrant nonsense!"
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adjective. old-fashioned uk / ˈær. ə nt / us / ˈer. ə nt / arrant nonsense. Add to word list. used to say how bad something is: He dismissed the rumours as `arrant nonsense '. Synonyms. complete. pure. unadulterated. utter. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Linguistics: very & extreme. abjectly. absolutely. abundantly clear. beyond.
: being notoriously without moderation : extreme. we are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us William Shakespeare. arrantly adverb. Synonyms. absolute. all-out. blank. blooming [chiefly British] bodacious [Southern & Midland] categorical. clean. complete. consummate. crashing. damned. deadly. definite. downright. dreadful. fair. flat-out.
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers. “an arrant fool”. synonyms: complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter. unmitigated.
Arrant definition: downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious. See examples of ARRANT used in a sentence.
arrant. (ærənt ) adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Arrant is used to emphasize that something or someone is very bad in some way. [emphasis] That's arrant nonsense. ...an arrant coward. Synonyms: total, complete, extreme, absolute More Synonyms of arrant. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Define arrant. arrant synonyms, arrant pronunciation, arrant translation, English dictionary definition of arrant. downright, thorough, unmitigated, notorious, utter, confirmed, flagrant: an arrant playboy Not to be confused with: errant – deviating from the proper...
adjective. old-fashioned us / ˈer. ə nt / uk / ˈær. ə nt / arrant nonsense. Add to word list. used to say how bad something is: He dismissed the rumors as `arrant nonsense '. Synonyms. complete. pure. unadulterated. utter. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Linguistics: very & extreme. abjectly. absolutely. abundantly clear. beyond.