What is another word for arrant?

Pronunciation: [ˈaɹənt] (IPA)

Arrant is an adjective which results in negative connotations like vulgar, shameless, utter, and complete. Some of its synonyms include unmitigated, gross, absolute, and unqualified. Further words like brazen, downright, flagrant, overt, and sheer express a tone of intense disapproval or anger. Certain synonyms, like consummate, surpassing, perfect, and accomplished, can have positive undertones but can also be used sarcastically, like an arrant show-off or an arrant fool. In general, arrant can be interchanged with words such as definite, outright, thorough, and blunt. However, it carries a strongly negative flavor that sets it apart from most of its synonyms.

Synonyms for Arrant:

What are the hypernyms for Arrant?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for arrant?

Arrant is a word that describes something as being extreme or blatant. The antonyms for arrant could include words like subtle, moderate, hidden, or indirect. For example, instead of describing someone's behavior as arrant rudeness, you could say that they were mildly discourteous or politely indifferent. Similarly, instead of telling someone that they made an arrant mistake, you could suggest that they were simply misguided or unintentionally misinformed. Using antonyms for arrant can help to soften the impact of negative comments or criticism, without losing the intended meaning or impact of the message.

What are the antonyms for Arrant?

Usage examples for Arrant

For with growing darkness came a dread upon him; in an access of arrant superstition he conceived of some unimaginable thing stealing near upon woman's feet.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
Your daughter is the most arrant little liar I ever knew!
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The man is an arrant fraud.
"Andy Grant's Pluck"
Horatio Alger

Famous quotes with Arrant

  • In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holyness being absolute hellishness. That is why our Saviours are of no awail, their remedies being too strong for common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner.
    Albert Caraco
  • It is a dreadful picture—this picture of Italy under the rule of the oligarchy. There was nothing to bridge over or soften the fatal contrast between the world of the beggars and the world of the rich. The more clearly and painfully this contrast was felt on both sides—the giddier the height to which riches rose, the deeper the abyss of poverty yawned—the more frequently, amidst that changeful world of speculation and playing at hazard, were individuals tossed from the bottom to the top and again from the top to the bottom. The wider the chasm by which the two worlds were externally divided, the more completely they coincided in the like annihilation of family life—which is yet the germ and core of all nationality—in the like laziness and luxury, the like unsubstantial economy, the like unmanly dependence, the like corruption differing only in its tariff, the like criminal demoralization, the like longing to begin the war with property. Riches and misery in close league drove the Italians out of Italy, and filled the peninsula partly with swarms of slaves, partly with awful silence. It is a terrible picture, but not one peculiar to Italy; wherever the government of capitalists in a slave-state has fully developed itself, it has desolated God's fair world in the same way as rivers glisten in different colours, but a common sewer everywhere looks like itself, so the Italy of the Ciceronian epoch resembles substantially the Hellas of Polybius and still more decidedly the Carthage of Hannibal's time, where in exactly similar fashion the all-powerful rule of capital ruined the middle class, raised trade and estate-farming to the highest prosperity, and ultimately led to a— hypocritically whitewashed—moral and political corruption of the nation. All the arrant sins that capital has been guilty of against nation and civilization in the modern world, remain as far inferior to the abominations of the ancient capitalist-states as the free man, be he ever so poor, remains superior to the slave; and not until the dragon-seed of North America ripens, will the world have again similar fruits to reap.
    Theodor Mommsen
  • BALTHAZAR: I have a private coat for Italian stilettos, I can be treacherous with the Walloon, drunk with the Dutch, a chimney-sweeper with the Irish, a gentleman with the Welsh and true arrant thief with the English. What then is my country to me?
    Thomas Dekker (writer)
  • This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
    Oliver Goldsmith
  • All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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