Arbitrary
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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OPEN
Information that has become public; "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface"

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TOUGH
Someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

CRUEL
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

BOSSY
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"

LUCKY
Having or bringing good fortune; "my lucky day"; "a lucky man"

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RULING
The reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

WANTON
Spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away"

CHANCE
A risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive"

RANDOM
Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; "a random choice"; "bombs fell at random"; "random movements"

UNFAIR
Not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"

FICKLE
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

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WILLFUL
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

FLATOUT
At top speed; "he ran flat out to catch the bus"; "he was off down the road like blue murder"

ERRATIC
Likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster

PLAYFUL
Full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school"

SUMMARY
A brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions"

WAYWARD
Resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

CONCISE
Expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"

OFFHAND
In a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter"

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ABSOLUTE
Something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"

ACCEPTED
Generally approved or compelling recognition; "several accepted techniques for treating the condition"; "his recognized superiority in this kind of work"

FREAKISH
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

CONTRARY
Exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty"

ABNORMAL
Not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food"

DESPOTIC
Belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot

DOGMATIC
Characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles

FANCIFUL
Having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"

POSSIBLE
Something that can be done; "politics is the art of the possible"

OPTIONAL
Possible but not necessary; left to personal choice

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OBSTINATE
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

UNPLANNED
Not done with purpose or intent; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked"

HAPHAZARD
Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

BELIEVING
The cognitive process that leads to convictions; "seeing is believing"

FRIVOLOUS
Not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman"

TYRANNOUS
Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

ILLOGICAL
Lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"

DOWNRIGHT
Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"

IMPERIOUS
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

MASTERFUL
Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance"

WHIMSICAL
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

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AUTOCRATIC
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"

AUTHORIZED
Endowed with authority

PEREMPTORY
Putting an end to all debate or action; "a peremptory decree"

IRRATIONAL
Not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals"

CHANGEABLE
Such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices"

TYRANNICAL
Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

MONOCRATIC

UNDISPUTED
Generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; "the undisputed fact"

SUBJECTIVE
Taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias; "a subjective judgment"

CAPRICIOUS
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

FORTUITOUS
Occurring by happy chance; "profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials"

HIGHHANDED

PREJUDICED
Emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices

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VACILLATING
Uncertain in purpose or action

MAGISTERIAL
Used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"

DOMINEERING
Tending to domineer

DICTATORIAL
Of or characteristic of a dictator; "dictatorial powers"

OVERBEARING
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

SUPERFICIAL
Of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"

OPINIONATED
Obstinate in your opinions

APPROXIMATE
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"

EXTRAVAGANT
Recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"

STRAIGHTOUT

PREDOMINANT
Having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism"

INJUDICIOUS
Lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision"

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UNREASONABLE
Not reasonable; not showing good judgment

UNSCIENTIFIC
Not consistent with the methods or principles of science; "an unscientific lack of objectivity"

INCONSISTENT
Not in agreement

SUPERCILIOUS
Expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"

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UNACCOUNTABLE
Not to be accounted for or explained; "perceptible only as unaccountable influences that hinder progress"; "an unexplainable fear"

DISCRETIONARY
(especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed; "discretionary funds"; "discretionary income"

AUTHORITATIVE
Having authority or ascendancy or influence; "an important official"; "the captain's authoritative manner"

AUTHORITARIAN
A person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"

HELTERSKELTER

IRRESPONSIBLE
Showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action"

UNPREDICTABLE
Unknown in advance; "an unpredictable (or indeterminable) future"

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