Meaning and example
based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
An arbitrary decision
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 2.043 places arbitrary in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 98.4% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 98.4%
a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- Known by
- 98.5%
affording no ease or reassurance
- Known by
- 98.4%
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
- Known by
- 98.5%
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
- Known by
- 98.4%
the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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