Definition of errant in English:

errant

adjective ˈɛr(ə)ntˈɛrənt

1humorous, formal Erring or straying from the accepted course or standards.
〈主正式，幽默〉做错事的；行为不轨的；出格的
an errant husband coming back from a night on the tiles
Example sentencesExamples
- As with John Hartson's dismissal in the Scottish Cup tie between these two sides last Monday, an errant Celtic player was guilty of rank stupidity.
- Shortly after that, the errant husband saw reason and Fathima was happily re-united with her husband and three children.
- This is funny because of the errant values Bob has accumulated over the course of his miserable life, and because of the extreme situation to which it is applied.
- It's not too difficult to imagine an errant chainsaw blade hitting precisely the right spot with precisely the right angle with which to sever.
- One day, while cutting wood Jerry Sr. lopped off a finger from his right hand with an errant axe blow.
- His mother, it transpired, had not approved of her husband's errant cousin either.
- That explains, in part, his decision last week to pardon the errant scientist.
- Mai, a forty-year-old school teacher, strives to make a normal life for herself and her children, despite her trauma at having to cope with an errant husband and interfering extended family.
- It could be caused by an errant husband lost to alcoholism, not unfamiliar given the fact that Goan liquor, distilled from coconut palm and from the cashew fruit, and called feni, is both potent and cheap.
- Of course, this errant stupidity helped force Zapatero's hand and have him bring the troops home.
- Lesser women would have cut their errant husband adrift.
- Today most women in her position would show their errant husband the door and not many, if any, would agree to bring up the child her husband fathered to the local barmaid.
- Watching in a Glasgow dump is her errant husband Jimmy, who heads to Nottingham, cash in hand from his latest theft, to try to rekindle the past.
- I remember when Lady Moon famously distributed her errant husband's expensive wine collection to the neighbours.
- Unless we punish errant husbands, this abuse will continue.
- To check whether an errant husband is spending whole nights with his mistress in another house, the detectives need to perform long-term surveillance from an inconspicuous location.
- In due course the errant professor is brought to his knees by a cabal of the politically correct together with other members of the faculty who hate him for more directly personal reasons.
- The issue is that while we are willing to accept the errant ways of noted figures, are we similarly willing to accept the errant ways of those not notable?
- Not only did Monica fear for her family, she also had little privacy, because golfers often would hop their short backyard fence to search for errant shots.
- We never know what Miss Trotwood's married name was, nor her errant husband's Christian name.
Synonyms
offending, guilty, culpable, misbehaving, delinquent, lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, transgressing, aberrant, deviant, erring, sinning
mischievous, badly behaved, troublesome, difficult, unmanageable, unruly, disobedient, uncontrollable, out of control
1. 1.1 Not in the right place; having moved from the correct position or course.
  错位的；离开正确位置的；离开正道的
  an errant strand of hair
  一缕没有梳顺的头发。
  fear of being hit by an errant bullet
  生怕被打偏的子弹击中的恐惧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Somehow my flailing managed to get the errant slide to slam shut.
  On certain holes, errant drives end up in dark hollows of trees well below the fairways.
  Errant shots from the outskirts invariably result in long rebounds that give the Nets ' running game a considerable head start.
  He dodged back and forth to move the last few errant lambs into the cave, then stood before them his hands on his hips.
  A few of them saw the routine grounders Jeter kicked, and the wildly errant missiles he threw, all over the South Atlantic League.
  Steve Nash spent part of a timeout checking on a boy who had been hit on a face with an errant pass.
  Within 28 seconds of stepping onto the Garden court, he soars, to grab a teammate's errant shot - his first Villanova rebound.
  Your mind may be drawing bull's-eyes around an errant arrow.
  Autio sued both the golf course and the golfer that hit the errant shot.
  Julia smoothed an errant bronze curl off Mara's forehead.
  He fields balls to his left particularly well, and he rarely makes an errant throw.
  An errant missile killed Iraqi civilians in January.
  Roy Williamson chased his errant tee shot into a hazard.
  Most commentators agree that Ghana could have scored six or eight goals against the Czechs, had our strikers been less errant.
  Last week they paid the price for such errant finishing.
  No quibbling over errant free throws or selfish shot selection.
  In three years with the team, Bartrum never has had an errant snap on a punt or kick.
  The smoother the laydown, the less bounce - and the less risk you run of throwing an errant shot.
  The conclusion there seems to be that both a tenth planet and an errant star are unlikely to exist.
  Layton was so excited his errant arm knocked the microphone from its stand.
2. 1.2Zoology (of a polychaete worm) of a predatory kind that moves about actively and is not confined to a tube or burrow.
  〔动〕（多毛目蠕虫）游走的，漫游的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Its a reproductive form of an errant polychaete worm.
  This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long.
2archaic, literary often postpositive Travelling in search of adventure.
〈古，诗/文〉（为探险而）漫游的；漂泊的；浪迹的；游侠的
that same lady errant
同一个女侠。参见KNIGHT ERRANT。
See also knight errant
Example sentencesExamples
- Also, the child's errant behaviour is largely a result of the parents' failure to prepare said child to behave respectfully in a learning environment.
- No search parties are sent out for the errant travellers.
- Still, he managed to get a sat-phone call to the U.S. embassy in Kabul, informing them of three errant Americans.
- The guardian thinks she's supposed to be cool and calm, indifferent and impartial, a door to keep out errant knights and travellers, but she's still steamed about being stuck down here.
- Thus it was that five minutes later he was wandering down the hall in search of his errant best friend.
- They were the only ones who saw daylight unhampered by collar and chain, let out to gather even more gullible strays and errant pets into a pack to be corralled, sacked, and dumped into the kennel.
Synonyms
travelling, wandering, itinerant, journeying, rambling, roaming, roving, drifting, floating, wayfaring, voyaging, touring
peripatetic, unsettled, rootless, restless, on the move, on the go, on the wing
nomadic, vagabond, vagrant, migrant, migratory, migrating, transient, displaced
globetrotting, jet-setting

Derivatives

errancy

noun ˈɛr(ə)nsiˈɛrənsi

mass noun

humorous, formal

The condition of erring or straying from the accepted course or standards.
〈主正式，幽默〉做错事的；行为不轨的；出格的
one lapse in judgement doesn't condemn a man to a lifetime of errancy
Example sentencesExamples
- Over and over, the History Channel confronts the errancy of popular belief, never seeming to tire in its celebration of Fact.
- Is this a joint project between men and women, or have men unilaterally decided to project an aura of servility, errancy, femininity and weakness?
- In these series of lithographs, etchings, paintings and inkjet prints, the artist spikes these compulsive recordings of movement with humour and a certain dark errancy.

errantry

noun ˈɛr(ə)ntriˈɛrəntri

mass noun

literary, archaic

The quality or condition of being a traveller, especially a knight, in search of adventure.
Sancho overhears the innkeeper saying errantry is a thing of the past
Example sentencesExamples
- Sancho is troubled when he overhears the priest say that the books of knight errantry are not true and the innkeeper saying errantry is a thing of the past.
- This character occasionally accompanies wizards on errantry for reasons of her own, and is always a source of good (if frequently obscure) advice.
- Waxing eloquent, he expresses how he now he fights for vengeance for the world (a kind of a bandit errantry).

Origin

Middle English (in sense 2): sense 1 from Latin errant- 'erring', from the verb errare; sense 2 from Old French errant 'travelling', present participle of errer, from late Latin iterare 'go on a journey', from iter 'journey'. Compare with arrant.

Rhymes

aberrant, deterrent, inherent, knight-errant

Definition of errant in US English:

errant

adjectiveˈɛrəntˈerənt

1formal, humorous Erring or straying from the proper course or standards.
〈主正式，幽默〉做错事的；行为不轨的；出格的
he could never forgive his daughter's errant ways
他永远也无法原谅女儿的出格行为。
Example sentencesExamples
- Today most women in her position would show their errant husband the door and not many, if any, would agree to bring up the child her husband fathered to the local barmaid.
- Shortly after that, the errant husband saw reason and Fathima was happily re-united with her husband and three children.
- We never know what Miss Trotwood's married name was, nor her errant husband's Christian name.
- That explains, in part, his decision last week to pardon the errant scientist.
- Watching in a Glasgow dump is her errant husband Jimmy, who heads to Nottingham, cash in hand from his latest theft, to try to rekindle the past.
- Of course, this errant stupidity helped force Zapatero's hand and have him bring the troops home.
- It could be caused by an errant husband lost to alcoholism, not unfamiliar given the fact that Goan liquor, distilled from coconut palm and from the cashew fruit, and called feni, is both potent and cheap.
- Unless we punish errant husbands, this abuse will continue.
- I remember when Lady Moon famously distributed her errant husband's expensive wine collection to the neighbours.
- To check whether an errant husband is spending whole nights with his mistress in another house, the detectives need to perform long-term surveillance from an inconspicuous location.
- The issue is that while we are willing to accept the errant ways of noted figures, are we similarly willing to accept the errant ways of those not notable?
- Mai, a forty-year-old school teacher, strives to make a normal life for herself and her children, despite her trauma at having to cope with an errant husband and interfering extended family.
- This is funny because of the errant values Bob has accumulated over the course of his miserable life, and because of the extreme situation to which it is applied.
- One day, while cutting wood Jerry Sr. lopped off a finger from his right hand with an errant axe blow.
- Lesser women would have cut their errant husband adrift.
- It's not too difficult to imagine an errant chainsaw blade hitting precisely the right spot with precisely the right angle with which to sever.
- His mother, it transpired, had not approved of her husband's errant cousin either.
- In due course the errant professor is brought to his knees by a cabal of the politically correct together with other members of the faculty who hate him for more directly personal reasons.
- Not only did Monica fear for her family, she also had little privacy, because golfers often would hop their short backyard fence to search for errant shots.
- As with John Hartson's dismissal in the Scottish Cup tie between these two sides last Monday, an errant Celtic player was guilty of rank stupidity.
Synonyms
offending, guilty, culpable, misbehaving, delinquent, lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, transgressing, aberrant, deviant, erring, sinning
1. 1.1Zoology (of a polychaete worm) of a predatory kind that moves about actively and is not confined to a tube or burrow.
  〔动〕（多毛目蠕虫）游走的，漫游的
  Example sentencesExamples
  This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long.
  Its a reproductive form of an errant polychaete worm.
2literary, archaic often postpositive Traveling in search of adventure.
〈古，诗/文〉（为探险而）漫游的；漂泊的；浪迹的；游侠的
that same lady errant
同一个女侠。参见KNIGHT ERRANT。
See also knight errant
Example sentencesExamples
- They were the only ones who saw daylight unhampered by collar and chain, let out to gather even more gullible strays and errant pets into a pack to be corralled, sacked, and dumped into the kennel.
- The guardian thinks she's supposed to be cool and calm, indifferent and impartial, a door to keep out errant knights and travellers, but she's still steamed about being stuck down here.
- No search parties are sent out for the errant travellers.
- Also, the child's errant behaviour is largely a result of the parents' failure to prepare said child to behave respectfully in a learning environment.
- Still, he managed to get a sat-phone call to the U.S. embassy in Kabul, informing them of three errant Americans.
- Thus it was that five minutes later he was wandering down the hall in search of his errant best friend.
Synonyms
travelling, wandering, itinerant, journeying, rambling, roaming, roving, drifting, floating, wayfaring, voyaging, touring

Origin

Middle English (in errant (sense 2)): errant (sense 1) from Latin errant- ‘erring’, from the verb errare; errant (sense 2) from Old French errant ‘traveling’, present participle of errer, from late Latin iterare ‘go on a journey’, from iter ‘journey’. Compare with arrant.

词汇	errant
释义	Definition of errant in English: errant adjective ˈɛr(ə)ntˈɛrənt 1humorous, formal Erring or straying from the accepted course or standards. 〈主正式，幽默〉做错事的；行为不轨的；出格的 an errant husband coming back from a night on the tiles Example sentencesExamples As with John Hartson's dismissal in the Scottish Cup tie between these two sides last Monday, an errant Celtic player was guilty of rank stupidity. Shortly after that, the errant husband saw reason and Fathima was happily re-united with her husband and three children. This is funny because of the errant values Bob has accumulated over the course of his miserable life, and because of the extreme situation to which it is applied. It's not too difficult to imagine an errant chainsaw blade hitting precisely the right spot with precisely the right angle with which to sever. One day, while cutting wood Jerry Sr. lopped off a finger from his right hand with an errant axe blow. His mother, it transpired, had not approved of her husband's errant cousin either. That explains, in part, his decision last week to pardon the errant scientist. Mai, a forty-year-old school teacher, strives to make a normal life for herself and her children, despite her trauma at having to cope with an errant husband and interfering extended family. It could be caused by an errant husband lost to alcoholism, not unfamiliar given the fact that Goan liquor, distilled from coconut palm and from the cashew fruit, and called feni, is both potent and cheap. Of course, this errant stupidity helped force Zapatero's hand and have him bring the troops home. Lesser women would have cut their errant husband adrift. Today most women in her position would show their errant husband the door and not many, if any, would agree to bring up the child her husband fathered to the local barmaid. Watching in a Glasgow dump is her errant husband Jimmy, who heads to Nottingham, cash in hand from his latest theft, to try to rekindle the past. I remember when Lady Moon famously distributed her errant husband's expensive wine collection to the neighbours. Unless we punish errant husbands, this abuse will continue. To check whether an errant husband is spending whole nights with his mistress in another house, the detectives need to perform long-term surveillance from an inconspicuous location. In due course the errant professor is brought to his knees by a cabal of the politically correct together with other members of the faculty who hate him for more directly personal reasons. The issue is that while we are willing to accept the errant ways of noted figures, are we similarly willing to accept the errant ways of those not notable? Not only did Monica fear for her family, she also had little privacy, because golfers often would hop their short backyard fence to search for errant shots. We never know what Miss Trotwood's married name was, nor her errant husband's Christian name. Synonyms offending, guilty, culpable, misbehaving, delinquent, lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, transgressing, aberrant, deviant, erring, sinning mischievous, badly behaved, troublesome, difficult, unmanageable, unruly, disobedient, uncontrollable, out of control 1.1 Not in the right place; having moved from the correct position or course. 错位的；离开正确位置的；离开正道的 an errant strand of hair 一缕没有梳顺的头发。 fear of being hit by an errant bullet 生怕被打偏的子弹击中的恐惧。 Example sentencesExamples Somehow my flailing managed to get the errant slide to slam shut. On certain holes, errant drives end up in dark hollows of trees well below the fairways. Errant shots from the outskirts invariably result in long rebounds that give the Nets ' running game a considerable head start. He dodged back and forth to move the last few errant lambs into the cave, then stood before them his hands on his hips. A few of them saw the routine grounders Jeter kicked, and the wildly errant missiles he threw, all over the South Atlantic League. Steve Nash spent part of a timeout checking on a boy who had been hit on a face with an errant pass. Within 28 seconds of stepping onto the Garden court, he soars, to grab a teammate's errant shot - his first Villanova rebound. Your mind may be drawing bull's-eyes around an errant arrow. Autio sued both the golf course and the golfer that hit the errant shot. Julia smoothed an errant bronze curl off Mara's forehead. He fields balls to his left particularly well, and he rarely makes an errant throw. An errant missile killed Iraqi civilians in January. Roy Williamson chased his errant tee shot into a hazard. Most commentators agree that Ghana could have scored six or eight goals against the Czechs, had our strikers been less errant. Last week they paid the price for such errant finishing. No quibbling over errant free throws or selfish shot selection. In three years with the team, Bartrum never has had an errant snap on a punt or kick. The smoother the laydown, the less bounce - and the less risk you run of throwing an errant shot. The conclusion there seems to be that both a tenth planet and an errant star are unlikely to exist. Layton was so excited his errant arm knocked the microphone from its stand. 1.2Zoology (of a polychaete worm) of a predatory kind that moves about actively and is not confined to a tube or burrow. 〔动〕（多毛目蠕虫）游走的，漫游的 Example sentencesExamples Its a reproductive form of an errant polychaete worm. This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long. 2archaic, literary often postpositive Travelling in search of adventure. 〈古，诗/文〉（为探险而）漫游的；漂泊的；浪迹的；游侠的 that same lady errant 同一个女侠。参见KNIGHT ERRANT。 See also knight errant Example sentencesExamples Also, the child's errant behaviour is largely a result of the parents' failure to prepare said child to behave respectfully in a learning environment. No search parties are sent out for the errant travellers. Still, he managed to get a sat-phone call to the U.S. embassy in Kabul, informing them of three errant Americans. The guardian thinks she's supposed to be cool and calm, indifferent and impartial, a door to keep out errant knights and travellers, but she's still steamed about being stuck down here. Thus it was that five minutes later he was wandering down the hall in search of his errant best friend. They were the only ones who saw daylight unhampered by collar and chain, let out to gather even more gullible strays and errant pets into a pack to be corralled, sacked, and dumped into the kennel. Synonyms travelling, wandering, itinerant, journeying, rambling, roaming, roving, drifting, floating, wayfaring, voyaging, touring peripatetic, unsettled, rootless, restless, on the move, on the go, on the wing nomadic, vagabond, vagrant, migrant, migratory, migrating, transient, displaced globetrotting, jet-setting Derivatives errancy noun ˈɛr(ə)nsiˈɛrənsi mass nounhumorous, formal The condition of erring or straying from the accepted course or standards. 〈主正式，幽默〉做错事的；行为不轨的；出格的 one lapse in judgement doesn't condemn a man to a lifetime of errancy Example sentencesExamples Over and over, the History Channel confronts the errancy of popular belief, never seeming to tire in its celebration of Fact. Is this a joint project between men and women, or have men unilaterally decided to project an aura of servility, errancy, femininity and weakness? In these series of lithographs, etchings, paintings and inkjet prints, the artist spikes these compulsive recordings of movement with humour and a certain dark errancy. errantry noun ˈɛr(ə)ntriˈɛrəntri mass nounliterary, archaic The quality or condition of being a traveller, especially a knight, in search of adventure. Sancho overhears the innkeeper saying errantry is a thing of the past Example sentencesExamples Sancho is troubled when he overhears the priest say that the books of knight errantry are not true and the innkeeper saying errantry is a thing of the past. This character occasionally accompanies wizards on errantry for reasons of her own, and is always a source of good (if frequently obscure) advice. Waxing eloquent, he expresses how he now he fights for vengeance for the world (a kind of a bandit errantry). Origin Middle English (in sense 2): sense 1 from Latin errant- 'erring', from the verb errare; sense 2 from Old French errant 'travelling', present participle of errer, from late Latin iterare 'go on a journey', from iter 'journey'. Compare with arrant. Rhymes aberrant, deterrent, inherent, knight-errant Definition of errant in US English: errant adjectiveˈɛrəntˈerənt 1formal, humorous Erring or straying from the proper course or standards. 〈主正式，幽默〉做错事的；行为不轨的；出格的 he could never forgive his daughter's errant ways 他永远也无法原谅女儿的出格行为。 Example sentencesExamples Today most women in her position would show their errant husband the door and not many, if any, would agree to bring up the child her husband fathered to the local barmaid. Shortly after that, the errant husband saw reason and Fathima was happily re-united with her husband and three children. We never know what Miss Trotwood's married name was, nor her errant husband's Christian name. That explains, in part, his decision last week to pardon the errant scientist. Watching in a Glasgow dump is her errant husband Jimmy, who heads to Nottingham, cash in hand from his latest theft, to try to rekindle the past. Of course, this errant stupidity helped force Zapatero's hand and have him bring the troops home. It could be caused by an errant husband lost to alcoholism, not unfamiliar given the fact that Goan liquor, distilled from coconut palm and from the cashew fruit, and called feni, is both potent and cheap. Unless we punish errant husbands, this abuse will continue. I remember when Lady Moon famously distributed her errant husband's expensive wine collection to the neighbours. To check whether an errant husband is spending whole nights with his mistress in another house, the detectives need to perform long-term surveillance from an inconspicuous location. The issue is that while we are willing to accept the errant ways of noted figures, are we similarly willing to accept the errant ways of those not notable? Mai, a forty-year-old school teacher, strives to make a normal life for herself and her children, despite her trauma at having to cope with an errant husband and interfering extended family. This is funny because of the errant values Bob has accumulated over the course of his miserable life, and because of the extreme situation to which it is applied. One day, while cutting wood Jerry Sr. lopped off a finger from his right hand with an errant axe blow. Lesser women would have cut their errant husband adrift. It's not too difficult to imagine an errant chainsaw blade hitting precisely the right spot with precisely the right angle with which to sever. His mother, it transpired, had not approved of her husband's errant cousin either. In due course the errant professor is brought to his knees by a cabal of the politically correct together with other members of the faculty who hate him for more directly personal reasons. Not only did Monica fear for her family, she also had little privacy, because golfers often would hop their short backyard fence to search for errant shots. As with John Hartson's dismissal in the Scottish Cup tie between these two sides last Monday, an errant Celtic player was guilty of rank stupidity. Synonyms offending, guilty, culpable, misbehaving, delinquent, lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, transgressing, aberrant, deviant, erring, sinning 1.1Zoology (of a polychaete worm) of a predatory kind that moves about actively and is not confined to a tube or burrow. 〔动〕（多毛目蠕虫）游走的，漫游的 Example sentencesExamples This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long. Its a reproductive form of an errant polychaete worm. 2literary, archaic often postpositive Traveling in search of adventure. 〈古，诗/文〉（为探险而）漫游的；漂泊的；浪迹的；游侠的 that same lady errant 同一个女侠。参见KNIGHT ERRANT。 See also knight errant Example sentencesExamples They were the only ones who saw daylight unhampered by collar and chain, let out to gather even more gullible strays and errant pets into a pack to be corralled, sacked, and dumped into the kennel. The guardian thinks she's supposed to be cool and calm, indifferent and impartial, a door to keep out errant knights and travellers, but she's still steamed about being stuck down here. No search parties are sent out for the errant travellers. Also, the child's errant behaviour is largely a result of the parents' failure to prepare said child to behave respectfully in a learning environment. Still, he managed to get a sat-phone call to the U.S. embassy in Kabul, informing them of three errant Americans. Thus it was that five minutes later he was wandering down the hall in search of his errant best friend. Synonyms travelling, wandering, itinerant, journeying, rambling, roaming, roving, drifting, floating, wayfaring, voyaging, touring Origin Middle English (in errant (sense 2)): errant (sense 1) from Latin errant- ‘erring’, from the verb errare; errant (sense 2) from Old French errant ‘traveling’, present participle of errer, from late Latin iterare ‘go on a journey’, from iter ‘journey’. Compare with arrant.
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