#arbitrary
- Abusive — Constituting an abuse, exceeding the limits of legality, morality, or common sense; based on force, whim, or an unequal power dynamic, to the detriment of another person's rights. In a medical or behavioral sense, it designates an exaggerated, harmful, and immoderate use of a substance, privilege, or resource.
- Arbitrary — Left to the free choice or whim of someone, without being based on a law, a fixed rule, or an objective necessity; despotic, abusive, unjustified. In linguistics and philosophy, the term describes a conventional connection established by simple social agreement, such as the relationship between the linguistic sign and the reality denoted.
- Arbitrarily — A rare archaic and regional adverbial form meaning 'arbitrarily'; an action carried out at one's own whim, without considering laws, fixed rules, logic, or objective necessities. It was used in old legal texts or political pamphlets to describe the abusive or despotic behavior of local authorities.