errant

adjwrong; deviant

Synonyms for errant

adj wrong; deviant

Antonyms for errant

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., "travelling, roving," from Anglo-French erraunt, from two Old French words that were confused even before they reached English: 1. Old French errant, present participle of errer "to travel or wander," from Late Latin iterare, from Latin iter "journey, way," from root of ire "to go" (see ion); 2. Old French errant, past participle of errer (see err). The senses fused in English 14c., but much of the sense of the latter since has gone with arrant.

Example Sentences for errant

"True, sir," said I in perfunctory acknowledgment, but with errant thoughts.

Usually, I have discovered the errant one—with the help of my guards, of course.

Their figures, unfixed in the abyss, have been shifted like errant sands of Earth.

Burns smiled as a king might upon a young knight seeking an errant.

Occasionally some flame would come in pursuit of her errant swain.

You must not presume to say that, because I confide to you all my errant thoughts.

And it is no cheap impunity that he faces in his errant hardihood.

Not that errant light which has misled you, but I, will be your guide.

Yet could I not come to speech of hym, but lost my errant with his cheefe men.

All the Stewarts had errant souls, and they loved to wander their kingdom through.

errant

Synonyms for errant

Antonyms for errant

devious

erring

fallible

fugitive

migrant/migratory

errant

Synonyms for errant

Antonyms for errant

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