errant
errant
Definition
er·rant (er′ənt)
adjective
- roving or wandering, esp. in search of adventure; itinerant a knight-errant
Etymology: OFr, prp. of errer (see err), confused with errer, to rove, travel
erring or straying from what is right or the right course- shifting about an errant wind
- Obsolete arrant
Etymology: ME erraunt < OFr errant, prp. of errer < ML iterare, to travel < L iter, a journey: see itinerant
er′·rantly adverb
errant
Synonyms
errant
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- motorist: Yet public binge drinking is still treated with a tact and understanding that is utterly denied to the errant motorist.
- husband: From Persia, too, comes the ancient recipe for regaining an errant husband.
- father: Make errant fathers pay up, instead of the honest hard working taxpayer.
- son: Three weeks later Sean's mother had to ring the SRU to find the whereabouts of her errant son.
- shot: There are many well placed pot bunkers lying in wait to catch the errant shot.
- driver: Speeding is not the activity of a minority of errant drivers.
Modifying Another Word
- woefully: Quite simply, it is because we are continuing to adhere to some woefully errant farming policy instituted nearly 50 years ago.
Browse dictionary entries near errant
- errand runner
- errand
- errancy
- err
- erotomania
- erotogenic
- erotize
- eroticize
- eroticism
- erotica
- errantry
- errata
- erratic
- erratically
- erratum
- erring
- Errol
- erroneous
- error
- error control
