'Errant' definitions:
Definition of 'errant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"
adjective
Uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze"
Definition of 'Errant'
From: GCIDE
- Errant \Er"rant\, a. [F. errant, p. pr. fr. OF. errer to travel, LL. iterare, fr. L. iter journey; confused somewhat with L. errare to err. See Eyre, and cf. Arrant, Itinerant.]
- 1. Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. [1913 Webster]
- Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant. [1913 Webster]
- Would make me an errant fool. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Eng. Law) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. --Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Errant'
From: GCIDE
- Errant \Er"rant\, n. One who wanders about. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'errant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- beside the mark,
- circuitous,
- circumforaneous,
- corrupt,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- distorted,
- divagatory,
- drifting,
- errable,
- erratic,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- error-prone,
- excursive,
- fallacious,
- fallible,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- flitting,
- floating,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- indirect,
- itinerant,
- labyrinthine,
- landloping,
- liable to error,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- misbehaving,
- mischievous,
- naughty,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- open to error,
- out,
- out-of-the-way,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- roaming,
- roving,
- self-contradictory,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- snaky,
- straggling,
- stray,
- straying,
- strolling,
- swerving,
- traipsing,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undirected,
- unfactual,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreliable,
- untrue,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wide,
- winding,
- wrong,
- zigzag