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arbitrary
Synonyms and Antonyms of arbitrary
- an arbitrary piano teacher who makes all her students do the same exercises over and over again
dictatorial, high-handed, imperious, peremptory, willful (or wilful)
arrogant, commanding, demanding, dominant, domineering, haughty, imperative, lordly, masterful, overbearing, presumptuous
authoritarian, autocratic (also autocratical), despotic, totalitarian, tyrannical (also tyrannic), tyrannous
capricious, changeable, erratic, inconsistent, mercurial, whimsical
biased, inequitable, partisan, prejudiced, unequal, unfair, unjust, unrealistic, unreasonable
- The order of the names of the 10 semifinalists is entirely arbitrary.
established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steady
arranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, planned
aware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful (or wilful)
methodical (also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized
- a nation with no tradition of democracy, only a long history of arbitrary rulers
absolute, autocratic (also autocratical), czarist (also tsarist), despotic, dictatorial, tyrannical (also tyrannic), tyrannous
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