Synonym: unreasonable, willful. Similar words: arbitrate, contrary, to the contrary, on the contrary, orbit, exorbitant, library, literary. Meaning: ['ɑːbɪtrərɪ] adj. based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice.
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(31) Objects, however, by virtue of their concrete nature, can never possess that entirely arbitrary and abstract capability.
(32) The decision as to what to accept as a distinct class is quite arbitrary.
(33) Case law has shown that court rulings on these kind of scenarios have resulted in arbitrary decisions.
(34) The links between sound, language and meaning can be complex and sometimes apparently arbitrary.
(35) But this reduces the distinction between the national and the comprador bourgeoisie to a quite arbitrary judgement on what constitutes national development.
(36) No element in glass to rest on my own arbitrary decision alone, he wrote.
(37) The way the programme of events is organized seems completely arbitrary to me.
(38) The inputs employed for simulation are somewhat arbitrary, but they reflect underlying realities.
(39) Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules, for which they would punish disobedience.
(40) Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.
(41) My decision to adopt this method is not an arbitrary one.
(42) An application of this sort needs to be able to store free-form notes of arbitrary length in addition to one-line headings.
(43) But rain has fallen here, too, in that arbitrary way which makes life so unpredictable.
(44) Many of the new rules seem as arbitrary as the old familiar ones.
(45) The government has carried out numerous executions and arbitrary arrests.
(46) Casinos sound such arbitrary and decadent places; nobody would want their economy's fate to be determined in one.
(47) The Whigs were concerned that the arbitrary power of a prince was being replaced by the arbitrary power of the legislature.
(48) Not having any for fifteen years means I find them quite arbitrary now, impossible to control.
(49) Pope had determined his text from the various readings in the Quartos and Folios by an arbitrary application of personal preference.
(50) To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority.
(51) The arbitrary rules grated on Wirk, but it was the no-smoking requirement that eventually precipitated her departure from the fellowship.
(52) Some of the ill feeling dates back to the somewhat arbitrary way Edison was first given the charter.
(53) Constitutionalism, therefore, is to be set in contradistinction to arbitrary power.
(54) The diversity of services outlined in Figure 8.4 makes any classification somewhat arbitrary.
(55) You see that the ornaments we are discussing are nothing if not arbitrary.
(56) They want continuity of policy, not capricious or arbitrary decisions.
(57) Equally, there is an insistence on the need to protect people from the arbitrary power of the state.
(58) Catholicism, however gripped the masses by virtue of its incense, its ritual, all quite arbitrary, compulsion without purpose.
(58) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
(59) It is so much easier to conform to arbitrary rules imposed by some one else on the basis of age.
(60) This is of course a somewhat arbitrary limitation from a fire protection point of view.
More similar words: arbitrate, contrary, to the contrary, on the contrary, orbit, exorbitant, library, literary, temporary, contemporary, extraordinary, bit by bit, maitre d', waitress, rare, forbid, turbine, garble, harbor, nearby, carbon, marble, garbage, morbidity, disturbing, carbohydrate, bitch, a bit of, rabbit, a bit of a.