Something that's arbitrary seems like it's chosen at random instead of following a consistent rule. Team members would dislike their coach using a totally arbitrary method to pick starting players.
Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules;
Adjective
based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of t
a.
Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any
fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
a.
Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and
therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of
power.
a.
Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and
unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
Arbitrary
It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so.
Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things.2.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness.3.
Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules;
Usage Examples
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
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Other Usage ExamplesSuffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
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