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arbitrary
adj
    1. Based on whim or random choice.
      Thesaurus: capricious, willful, fanciful, whimsical, superficial, irrational, erratic, random, inconsistent; Antonym: rational, reasonable, circumspect.
    2. (of a person in power) operating or governing tyrannically.
      Thesaurus: absolute, despotic, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannical, dogmatic, domineering, imperious, overbearing.
Derivative: arbitrarily
adverb
    Derivative: arbitrariness
    noun
      Etymology: 16c: from Latin arbitrarius uncertain.



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