Arrant

Definition: Arrant

Arrant

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "arrant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Arrant \Ar"rant\, adjective. [from Old English expression erraunt, errant, errand, equiv. to English 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.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Arrant

Synonyms: arrant(a) (adj), complete(a) (adj), consummate(a) (adj), double-dyed(a) (adj), everlasting(a) (adj), gross(a) (adj), perfect(a) (adj), pure(a) (adj), sodding(a) (adj), staring(a) (adj), stark(a) (adj), thoroughgoing(a) (adj), utter(a) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Greatness	Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute).
Improbity	Infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard.
Inexpedience	Bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.
Manifestation	Flagrant; notorious; (public); arrant; stark staring; unshaded, glaring.
Publication	Adjective: published;Verb: current; (news); in circulation, public; notorious; flagrant, arrant; open; trumpet-tongued; encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory; exoteric.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Arrant

English words defined with "arrant": Castigatory, complete, consummate ♦ double-dyed ♦ everlasting ♦ gross ♦ perfect, pure ♦ sodding, staring, stark ♦ thoroughgoing ♦ utter. (references)

Specialty definitions using "arrant": Fifth-Monarchy Men ♦ Nym. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Night Arrant (Gord the Rogue, No 2) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	They that found absolute monarchy upon the title of the sword, make their heroes, who are the founders of such monarchies, arrant Draw-can-sirs, and forget they had any officers and soldiers that fought on their side in the battles they won, or assisted them in the subduing, or shared in possessing, the countries they mastered. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Arrant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arrant" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	15	90,616

The following table summarizes the usage of "arrant" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Arrant	Last name	1,000	18,829
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "arrant": arrant dunce ♦ arrant knave ♦ arrant nonsense. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "arrant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i regjur (inveterate, tough, weather beaten), i mbaruar (done, finished, haggard, out of hand, past, perfect, proper). (various references)

Arabic		‏بكل ما في الكلمة من معنى (absolutely, diametrically, downright). (various references)

Bulgarian		същински (positive, proper, pure, rank, real, regular, sheer, simple, veritable, very), отявлен (desperate, downright, notorious, open, professed, rank, right-down, straight out, unmitigated), изпечен (arch, consummate, hard bitten, perfect, practised). (various references)

Czech		vyložený (absolute, downright, real, right-down, undiluted, utter), prohnaný (cannie, canny, cunning, devious, dodgy, foxy). (various references)

French		fini, fieffé. (various references)

German		völlig (absolutely, altogether, complete, completely, consummately, dead, downright, entirely, full, fully, out and out, outright, perfect, perfectly, plain, profound, quite, sheer, thorough, through, total, totally, uncompromisingly, utterly, wanton, wholly, widely). (various references)

Greek		τέλειοσ (accomplished, complete, consummate, finished, outright, perfect, precious, stark, straight out), διαβόητοσ (egregious, notorious). (various references)

Hebrew		י�"וע לשמצ�" (notorious). (various references)

Hungarian		hírhedt (flagrant, notorious). (various references)

Italian		completo (absolute, all, all out, all round, blank, clear, complete, dead, entire, full, full up, implicit, inclusive, integral, intimate, out and out, outfit, outright, overall, perfect, round, set, sound, stark, suit, thorough, total, totally, unabridged, utter, whole). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		評判 (fame, popularity, reputation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひょうば�" (fame, popularity, reputation). (various references)

Manx		jiarg- (crass, egregious, gross, rank). (various references)

Pig Latin		arrantay

Portuguese		reconhecido (accepted, acknowledged, beholden, grantee, grateful, thankful), notório (celebrated, common, flagrant, glaring, notorious, open, overt, palpable, proverbial, public), errante (devious, errant, erring, excursive, gadabout, knockabout, migratory, nomad, planetary, rambling, strolling, viatic, wandering), completo (absolute, all out, all-around, all-out, all-round, bijou, clean, complete, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, egregious, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unabridged, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole). (various references)

Romanian		notoriu (flagrant, notorious, well known), inveterat (confirmed, deep-seated, die hard, engrained, hopeless, ingrained, irreclaimable). (various references)

Russian		сущий (mere), настоящий (actual, honest, natural, perfect, practicable, present, pucka, pukka, real, regular, simon-pure, unadulterated, unfabled, veritable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		okoreo (addicted, chronic, confirmed, double-dyed, dyed in the wool, impenitent, ingrain, ingrained, inveterate, obdurate, out and out, thorough), bezočan (audacious, barefaced, impudent, nefarious, reprobate), bestidan (barefaced, bold, impudent, obscene, shameless, unashamed, unblushing). (various references)

Spanish		terminado (accomplished, all up, closed, completed, discontinued, done, finished, landed, lost, over, ready, through, up), redomado (out and out), de marca mayor, conocido (acquaint, acquaintance, excerpt, famed, familiar, famous, Ken, known, learned, met, noted, recognized, well-known). (various references)

Swedish		durkdriven (crafty, practised, thoroughpaced), ärke- (arch), äkta (authentic, espouse, genuine, inartificial, kosher, legit, real, regular, right-down, true, true blue, veritable). (various references)

Thai		อย่างมาก (dreadfully, far, greatly, lots, majorly, mightily, much, such). (various references)

Turkish		adı çıkmış (discredited, disreputable, infamous, notorious, of ill fame, of ill repute), son derece (all-fired, almighty, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), katıksız (pure, unalloyed), çok kötü (atrocious, awful, chronic, rotten, terrible, thumbs down, violent). (various references)

Ukrainian		сущий (mere), справжний (apparent, proper), мандрівний (errant, itinerant, itinerary, migrant, migratory, nomad, nomadic, peripatetic, wandering). (various references)

Vietnamese		thậm đại, thực sự (actually, proper, veritable, virtual, virtually), ho� n to� n; hết sức. (various references)

Welsh		dybryd (dire, flagrant, sore), cywilyddus (disgraceful, shameful). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "arrant": arrantly. (additional references)
	Words ending with "arrant": warrant. (additional references)
	Words containing "arrant": unwarrantable, unwarrantably, unwarranted, warrantable, warrantableness, warrantablenesses, warrantably, warranted, warrantee, warrantees, warranter, warranters, warranties, warranting, warrantless, warrantor, warrantors, warrants, warranty. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Arrant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeran, Agran, Agranu, Ahronot, araan, aran, arang, Arans, arant, arat, arcant, Ardant, argant, arkan, Arkautz, arnat, Arnaut, ar'nt, arralt, arran, arrand, arrans, Arranz, arrat, Arrata, arrens, arrent, arret, arrgant, arrian, arrine, arron, arrot, Artan, garant, Garrani, harant, iurarunt, Kagrant, orant, rarint, Sarraut, urrent. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "arrant" (pronounced a"runt)
4	-r u n t	aberrant, abhorrent, adherent, apparent, celebrant, coherent, Courant, declarant, deterrent, emigrant, entrant, errant, flagrant, fragrant, grandparent, hydrant, immigrant, incoherent, indifferent, inherent, migrant, parent, quadrant, recalcitrant, registrant, seafront, torrent, transparent, tyrant, vagrant, vibrant, warrant.
3	-u n t	abandonment, abatement, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, harassment, hesitant, ignorant, immanent, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vigilant, violent, virulent, wonderment.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-n-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: antra, ratan.
	-2 letters: anta, rant, tarn.
	-3 letters: ana, ant, art, ran, rat, tan, tar.
	-4 letters: aa, an, ar, at, na, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-n-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: narrate, warrant.
	+2 letters: aberrant, arrantly, arrogant, fragrant, narrated, narrater, narrates, narrator, tarragon, trimaran, warrants, warranty.
	+3 letters: aberrants, antiradar, arrestant, fraternal, guarantor, narraters, narrating, narration, narrative, narrators, rainwater, regardant, retardant, tarragons, tarriance, trimarans, warranted, warrantee, warranter, warrantor.
	+4 letters: aberrantly, aberration, alternator, archentera, armaturing, arrestants, arrogantly, arrogating, arrogation, catarrhine, contrarian, fragrantly, fruitarian, granulator, guarantors, intramural, irrational, marathoner, narrations, narratives, parenteral, praetorian, quaternary, rainwaters, ramparting, rearmament, reparation, restaurant, retardants, retreatant, ritardando, tarriances, transactor, transferal, translator, transpolar, trawlerman, triangular, unarrogant, warrantees, warranters, warranties, warranting, warrantors.
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