Crossword-Solution: ARBITRARY 9 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Arbitrary a. Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any
fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
Arbitrary a. Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and
therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of
power.
Arbitrary a. Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and
unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.

We have 49 clues for the answer “ARBITRARY”

Clue Answers
Without specific motive 1 answer
Not based on reason; capricious 1 answer
Made for no apparent reason, as decisions 1 answer
Tyrannical or high-handed. 1 answer
Like a fiat 1 answer
Unrestricted; despotic 1 answer
Completely random 1 answer
based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice 1 answer
antinomian 3 answers
Selected at random 3 answers
Not following any particular rule or pattern 3 answers
discretionary 7 answers
autarchic 9 answers
magisterial 17 answers
NEEDING order 17 answers
GIVING of order 18 answers
LEAVING no option 18 answers
BROOKING no refusal 18 answers
unconformable 30 answers
Bossy 34 answers
authoritarian 36 answers
freehold 38 answers
Tyrannical 41 answers
despotic 44 answers
Unfettered 44 answers
inequitable 48 answers
Unconditional 51 answers
Domineering 53 answers
overbearing 54 answers
Lawless 55 answers
Inconsistent 61 answers
unorthodox 62 answers
Head-strong? 67 answers
Imperious 67 answers
wilful 67 answers
disobedient 68 answers
autocratic 68 answers
Capricious 70 answers
Incongruous 71 answers
dictatorial 71 answers
unmanageable 72 answers
Random 73 answers
Wayward 76 answers
Astray 77 answers
erratic 79 answers
unreasonable 81 answers
Caprice 84 answers
unrestrained 93 answers
Absolute 95 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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The tendency of the undisciplined C programmer to set arbitrary but supposedly generous static limits on table sizes (defined, if you're lucky, by constants in header files) rather than taking the trouble to do proper dynamic storage allocation.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Its typical value is value is 1 to 8 which are arbitrary goodness of link values understood by the internal DDN gateways.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet Ed Krol 1992
SPERBERG-McQUEEN agreed with this view, and said that the situation was in a way worse: attempting to unify arbitrary DTDs resembled attempting to unify a MARC record with a bibliographic record done according to the Prussian instructions.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.” “Yes,” she said.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994

Quotes with ARBITRARY (3)

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,” or constitutes a judgment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism and a condemnation that vegetarians (or other consumers of animal products) are “bad” people. Yes to the first part; no to the second. There is no coherent distinction between flesh and other animal products. They are all the same and we cannot justify consuming …
Gary L. Francione
You're the insane one. You don't even love the world you created. So how can you expect us to love and respect you? An endless repetition of natural destruction and stupid, meaningless wars. Because we don't understand it, we have no way to stop it. We may be stupid and not know what to do... But we fight to move forward towards that which we think is right. Not just sticking to the arbitrary boundaries you created. We make lots of mistakes, and get hurt... But we keep believ…
Kaori Yuki Angel Sanctuary, Vol. 20
To those who in their turn selectively handle Mormon history and discourage our probing it in a number of areas, one needs to say (or at least to ask): Haven’t we been, if anything, overly cautious, overly mistrustful, overly condescending to a membership and a public who are far more perceptive and discerning than we often give them credit for? Haven’t we, in our care not to offend a soul or cause anyone the least misunderstanding, too much deprived such individuals of needf…
Thomas F. Rogers Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty
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