Errant



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 错误的, 脱离正途的
• ［英］ adj. 错误的, 脱离正途的 ( erring or straying from what is right)
• ［类］ errant : course / heretical : doctrine ( 脱离正途的偏离正道 / 异端邪说的偏离正统教条)
• ［记］ err ( 错) +ant -> 错的;
• ［同］ 参考: error ( 错误)

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Etymology: Middle English erraunt, from Anglo-French errant, present participle of errer to err & errer to travel, from Late Latin iterare, from Latin iter road, journey — more at itinerant
• Date: 14th century
• 1. traveling or given to traveling <an errant knight>
• 2.
  • a. straying outside the proper path or bounds <an errant calf>
  • b. moving about aimlessly or irregularly <an errant breeze>
  • c. behaving wrongly <an errant child>
  • d. fallible
• ? errant noun
• ? errantly adverb

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