About The Word Errant
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Errant
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What's The Definition Of Errant?
[adj] capable of making an error; "all men are error-prone"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Errant: erring | error-prone | fallible Related Terms | Find terms related to Errant: aberrant | aberrative | abroad | adrift | all abroad | all off | all wrong | amiss | askew | astray | at fault | awry | beside the mark | circuitous | circumforaneous | corrupt | deceptive | defective | delusive | departing | desultory | deviant | deviating | deviational | deviative | deviatory | devious | digressive | discursive | distorted | divagatory | drifting | errable | erratic | erring | erroneous | error-prone | excursive | fallacious | fallible | false | faultful | faulty | flawed | flitting | floating | footloose | footloose and fancy-free | fugitive | gadding | gypsyish | gypsy-like | heretical | heterodox | illogical | illusory | indirect | itinerant | labyrinthine | landloping | liable to error | mazy | meandering | migrational | migratory | misbehaving | mischievous | naughty | nomad | nomadic | not right | not true | off | off the track | open to error | out | out-of-the-way | peccant | perverse | perverted | planetary | rambling | ranging | roaming | roving | self-contradictory | serpentine | shifting | snaky | straggling | stray | straying | strolling | swerving | traipsing | transient | transitory | transmigratory | turning | twisting | undirected | unfactual | unorthodox | unproved | unreliable | untrue | vagabond | vagrant | veering | wandering | wide | winding | wrong | zigzag See Also | Errant In Webster's Dictionary \Er"rant\, a. [F. errant, p. pr. fr. OF. errer to travel,
LL. iterare, fr. L. iter journey; confused somewhat with L.
errare to err. See {Eyre}, and cf. {Arrant}, {Itinerant}.]
1. Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a
direct path; roving.
Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of
heaven. --Sir T.
Browne.
2. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
Would make me an errant fool. --B. Jonson.
3. (Eng. Law) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to
judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
--Mozley & W.
\Er"rant\, n. One who wanders about. [Obs.] --Fuller. |
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