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Errant

Errant Meaning & Definition
Errant Definition And Meaning

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

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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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