arbitrarily
adverb
uk/ˌɑː.bɪˈtreə.rəl.i/us/ˌɑːr.bəˈtrer.əl.i/arbitrarilyadverb(BY CHANCE)
in a way that isbasedonchanceratherthan beingplannedorbasedonreason:
We made thedecisionto go to Italyquitearbitrarily.
He arbitrarilydecidedto take thepart.
- They just arbitrarilypickanumber.
- You can't just arbitrarily say that there are going to be 500 morestudents.
- We didn't make thesechangesarbitrarily, but for a goodreason.
Chance and randomness
- accident
- aleatory
- arbitrariness
- arbitrary
- as luck would have itidiom
- fluke
- fluky
- fortuitous
- fortuitously
- fortuitousness
- luck
- luck intosomething
- more by accident than designidiom
- more by luck than judgmentidiom
- non-purposive
- randomized
- randomly
- randomness
- serendipitous
- stumble intosomething
arbitrarilyadverb(UNFAIRLY)
disapproving
in a way that usespersonalpowerunfairlyand withoutconsideringpeople'srightsandwishes:
专断地；武断地；霸道地Localofficialsenforcerulesarbitrarily andunreasonably.地方官员专断、不合理地执行规则。
- People have beenheldincommunicadofordecadeswithouttrialandkilledarbitrarily.
- Theclergybecamearulingclassthat arbitrarily madedecreesaffectingpeople'slives.
- Thepolicearrestedanddetainedpeoplearbitrarily.
Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
- ableism
- ableist
- agism
- agist
- Anglocentric
- discrimination
- discriminatory
- elitism
- elitist
- ethnocentric
- one-sided
- one-sidedness
- one-way
- othering
- partial
- unbalance
- unequal
- unequally
- uneven
- unevenly
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arbitrary