Unsteady vs Arbitrary - What's the difference?
unsteady | arbitrary | Related terms |
Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.
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*:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day:"
Noted for lack of regularity or uniformity.
Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.
To render unsteady, removing balance.
(usually, of a decision) Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.
Determined by impulse rather than reason; heavy-handed.
(mathematics) Any and all possible.
Determined by independent arbiter.
Anything arbitrary, such as an arithmetical value or a fee.
Unsteady is a related term of arbitrary.
As adjectives the difference between unsteady and arbitrary
is that unsteady is not held firmly in position, physically unstable while arbitrary is (usually|of a decision) based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.As a verb unsteady
is to render unsteady, removing balance.As a noun arbitrary is
anything arbitrary, such as an arithmetical value or a fee.unsteady
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Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobblyAntonyms
* steadyVerb
arbitrary
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Adjective
(arbitrariness) (en adjective)- Benjamin Franklin's designation of "positive" and "negative" to different charges was arbitrary . In fact, electrons flow in the opposite direction to conventional current.
- The decision to use 18 years as the legal age of adulthood was arbitrary , as both age 17 and 19 were reasonable alternatives.
- "The Russian trials were Stalin's purges, with which he attempted to consolidate his power. Like most people in the West, I believed these show trials to be the arbitrary acts of a cruel dictator." (
Max Born, Letters to Einstein
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- The equation is true for an arbitrary value of x.
- To secure food safety, there should first be a national standard to arbitrarily state what is wholesome and what is not; second, the final buyer should know exactly what he is purchasing. (
The World's Work ...: a history of our time
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