noun
definition
A knight-errant.
adjective
definition
Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.
definition
Wandering; roving around.
definition
Prone to making errors; misbehaved.
example
We ran down the street in pursuit of the errant dog.
definition
Utter, complete (negative); arrant.
Examples of errant in a Sentence
He tucked an errant curl behind her ear, enjoying the brush of her soft skin.
Many individuals who want to remove a few errant hairs choose tweezers for the job.
Tradition has it that it was formed from an errant shovelful of soil thrown here by a giant while digging out the Cheddar Gorge.
His first publication, the Tablettes du juif errant, appeared in 1823.
Errant keystrokes sometimes add the wrong word spellings into your spell checker's database, so that these will be approved and missed by you, but not by the reader.
Dean had brief thoughts of the errant preacher robbing a dead hooker but kept them to himself.
Quite simply, it is because we are continuing to adhere to some woefully errant farming policy instituted nearly 50 years ago.
Later, 47 830 appeared to pick up the errant electric locomotive.
Yet the Swift manages to look individual in a complex world, and that rounded snout gives errant pedestrians a sporting chance of survival.
Everyone gets a splinter at some point - whether from an errant bit of wood, a metal shaving or a thorn or burr from a plant.
They saved the day, (actually, the night!), and we enjoyed good food and great fellowship!Several years passed before my in-laws and others of the wedding party would patronize the errant restaurant.
Examine the floor - Go over the floor to make sure there aren't any errant nails or carpet staples left behind.
If you rarely open Champagne, read up on how to properly open a bottle so no one gets hit with an errant cork.
If the errant uterine tissue travels to other parts of the body like the abdominal wall or the diaphragm, the woman may have pain in these areas associated with the menstrual cycle as well.
Use a depilatory gel or cream if you have any errant hairs on the breasts that you'd like to remove.
The catcher's gear protects him or her from injury by errant bats or poorly thrown balls that are difficult to catch.
He touched her automatically, stroking the side of her face and tucking errant curls behind her ear.
This he reported, his eyes glassy in rapt nostalgia, reliving every errant swing of his impotent bat.
The jockeying crowd made it difficult for five-foot Cynthia Dean to catch more than a glimpse of the activity as bodies rolled and washed across the pavement and errant streams drenched the crowd.
Why Rover's return is making us blush Stephen Pritchard puts paid to the errant apostrophe.
There are many well placed pot bunkers lying in wait to catch the errant shot.
Believing she had wandered off into the tenement stairwell, Colleen went in search of the errant animal.
A sudden break in the clouds, an errant sunbeam, or a sharp shadow can impair an athlete's performance by forcing their eyes to continually readjust to changing lighting conditions.
An aged paladin, somewhat uxorious and always penniless, he was a typical knight errant, whose wanderings led him all over Europe, and planted him successively on the thrones of Jerusalem and Constantinople.
Quinet published a prose epic on the subject in 1833, and Eugene Sue, in his best-known work, Le Juif errant (1844), introduces the Wandering Jew in the prologues of its different sections and associates him with the legend of Herodias.
The feature of his school which attracted most attention, perhaps, was his scheme for the teacher's receiving punishment, in certain circumstances, at the hands of an offending pupil, whereby the sense of shame might be quickened in the mind of the errant child.