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errant
/ ˈɛrənt /
adjective
- archaic.wandering in search of adventure
- erring or straying from the right course or accepted standards
Derived Forms
- ˈerrantly, adverb
Other Words From
- errant·ly adverb
- non·errant adjective
- non·errant·ly adverb
- un·errant adjective
- un·errant·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of errant1
Word History and Origins
Origin of errant1
Example Sentences
When Schettino commanded him to turn the ship, he can be heard repeating errant commands.
Some things have changed a lot since 1984 when the errant Father Buck wrote to his young love interest.
The errant flashes of light in your brain depicting this possibility are strong enough to make you wince and want to cry.
But perhaps another errant remark by Hickenlooper recorded at the meeting sums up the whole imbroglio best.
Gone were the ugly memories of errant throws to the wrong bases or ill-advised cutoffs.
To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.
For two days he had faced death, fighting like a legionary or a knight-errant, and in short playing the hero.
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
He ought to have been born six or seven hundred years ago, he would have made a delightful knight-errant.
As I live his horse is a mule—what a pity it was not some knight-errant!
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