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arranter

arranter is the comparative form of arrant.

Meaning of arrant

Adjective

arrant (comparative more arrant or arranter, superlative most arrant or arrantest)

  1. (dated) Complete; downright; utter.
    • an arrant knave arrant nonsense
  2. (broadly, dated) Very bad; despicable.
    • [W]ho ſo forward to accuſe, to debaſe, to revile, to crow-treade an other as the arranteſt fellow in a country?1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe...

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Questions about arranter

What is arranter the comparative form of?
Arranter is the comparative form of arrant.

Words near arranter in the dictionary

  1. arrangings
  2. arrangment
  3. arrangments
  4. arrans
  5. arrant
  6. arranter
  7. arrantest
  8. arrantly
  9. Arrants
  10. Arrantses
  11. Arrarnta

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