Errant

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  • adjective. Roving, especially in search of adventure.
  • adjective. Failing to adhere to guidelines or moral standards.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Moving from the proper course or established limits.
  • adjective. Aimless or irregular in motion.
  • adjective. Missing an intended target or recipient.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wandering; roving; rambling: applied particularly to knights (knights errant) of the middle ages, who are represented as wandering about to seek adventures and display their heroism and generosity.
  • Deviating; straying from the straight, true, or right course; erring.
  • In zoology, free; not fixed; locomotory; specifically, pertaining to the Errantia; not tubicolous: as, the errant annelids.
  • Notorious; manifest: in this sense now spelled only arrant. See arrant, 2.
  • noun. A knight errant.
  • Itinerant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who wanders about.
  • adjective. Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
  • adjective. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
  • adjective. Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits
  • adjective. prone to making errors
  • adjective. utter, complete (negative); arrant
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable
  • adjective. straying from the right course or from accepted standards
  • Word Usage
    "Never shoot at anything without a clearly apparent backstop to contain errant rounds."