arrant: [16] Arrant is an alteration of errant, as in knight errant. This originally meant ‘roaming, wandering’, but its persistent application to nouns with negative connotations, such as rogue and thief, gradually drove its meaning downwards by association, to ‘notorious’. => errant
arrant (adj.)
late 14c., variant of errant (q.v.); at first merely derogatory, "wandering, vagrant;" then (1540s) acquiring a meaning "thoroughgoing, downright, notorious."
实用例句
1. That's arrant nonsense.
那完全是一派胡言。来自柯林斯例句
2. He is an arrant fool.
他是个大傻瓜.来自辞典例句
3. The most arrant nonsense about a product is never questioned.
