Arbitrarily

Q: What is a synonym for "arbitrarily"?

Common synonyms include: at random, every which way, haphazardly, indiscriminately, indiscriminately, lightly.

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Definitions

Adverb

1
In an arbitrary manner.
"The winner was chosen arbitrarily."
2
To an arbitrary degree.
"an arbitrarily large number"

Adverb

1
in a random manner wordnet

Synonyms

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at random every which way haphazardly indiscriminately indiscriminately lightly

Antonyms

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unarbitrarily

Example

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"For the sake of completeness, let us mention that the ring R, considered as a module over itself, has submodules of arbitrarily large finite length."

Etymology

From arbitrary + -ly.

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