arbitrarily

Adverb

1. In an arbitrary manner.
   • The winner was chosen arbitrarily.
   • From these remarks it will be seen that I look at the term species, as one arbitrarily given for the sake of convenience to a set of individuals closely resembling each other, and that it does not essentially differ...
   • Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.” - 1966 February 5, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood...

   Antonyms: unarbitrarily

2. To an arbitrary degree.
   • an arbitrarily large number