Usually means: Based on personal choice, whim.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. arbitrary: Merriam-Webster
  2. arbitrary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arbitrary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. arbitrary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. arbitrary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Arbitrary, arbitrary: Wordnik
  7. arbitrary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. arbitrary: Wiktionary
  9. arbitrary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. arbitrary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. arbitrary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. arbitrary: Dictionary.com
  13. arbitrary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. arbitrary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Arbitrary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Arbitrary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. arbitrary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. arbitrary: Rhymezone
  19. arbitrary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. arbitrary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. arbitrary: FreeDictionary.org
  22. arbitrary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. arbitrary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. arbitrary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. arbitrary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. arbitrary: Merriam-Webster

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. arbitrary: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. arbitrary: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. arbitrary: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. arbitrary: Legal dictionary
  8. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arbitrary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arbitrary: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (usually of a decision) Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.
adjective:  Determined by impulse rather than reason; often connoting heavy-handedness.
adjective:  (mathematics) Any, out of all that are possible.
adjective:  Determined by independent arbiter.
adjective:  (linguistics) Not representative or symbolic; not iconic.
noun:  Anything arbitrary, such as an arithmetical value or a fee.

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