errant
About 0.76 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.
- adjective Roving around; wandering.
- adjective Prone to erring or making errors; misbehaving.
We ran down the street in pursuit of the errant dog.
- adjective Obsolete form of arrant (“complete; downright, utter”).
- noun A knight-errant.
Similar words
fallible erring error-prone straying stray guilty deviant photon aberrant erroneous
Often followed by
of and in husband son child knight to who
Word family
errantly errants
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