Arbitrary



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 专横的, 不理智的
• ［英］ adj. 专横的, 不理智的 ( discretionary; despotic, dictatorial)
• ［记］ arbitr ( 判断) +ary -> 自己作判断 -> 武断的
• ［同］ 派生词: arbitrarily ( adv. 随心所欲地, 霸道地)

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Date: 15th century
• 1. depending on individual discretion (as of a judge) and not fixed by law the manner of punishment is arbitrary
• 2.
  • a. not restrained or limited in the exercise of power ; ruling by absolute authority an arbitrary government
  • b. marked by or resulting from the unrestrained and often tyrannical exercise of power protection from arbitrary arrest and detention
• 3.
  • a. based on or determined by individual preference or convenience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something an arbitrary standardtake any arbitrary positive numberarbitrary division of historical studies into watertight compartments — A. J. Toynbee
  • b. existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will when a task is not seen in a meaningful context it is experienced as being arbitrary — Nehemiah Jordan
• • arbitrarily adverb
• • arbitrariness noun

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