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Erratic   /ɪrˈætɪk/   Listen
Erratic

adjective
1.
Liable to sudden unpredictable change.  Synonyms: fickle, mercurial, quicksilver.  "Fickle weather" , "Mercurial twists of temperament" , "A quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
2.
Having no fixed course.  Synonyms: planetary, wandering.  "His life followed a wandering course" , "A planetary vagabond"
3.
Likely to perform unpredictably.  Synonym: temperamental.  "A temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't" , "That beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"






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"Erratic" Quotes from Famous Books



... not so greatly dismayed at this experience as might have been expected. They had recently accompanied their erratic relative on a European trip and had learned ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne

... to it. Certain fallacies existed for a long time as to the relative merits of the dry or molten and the wet or electrolytical methods of galvanizing. The latter was found to be costly and slow, and the results obtained were erratic and not satisfactory, and soon gave place to the dry or molten bath process, as in practice at the present day; but the difficulty of management in connexion with large baths of molten material, and ...
— Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition - For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and - Galvanizing • William N. Brown

... quick and hasty temper as they now did, the boys were not unprepared for anything that might happen. Gritting their teeth they marched bravely on even though they felt that at any moment the erratic man behind them might send a bullet into their backs. They resolved, however, to show ...
— Boy Scouts in Southern Waters • G. Harvey Ralphson

... calls Ireland's Case; Meaning thereby the case of his shop,- Of curate, vicar, rector, bishop, And all those other grades seraphic, That make men's souls their special traffic, Tho' caring not a pin which way The erratic souls go, so they pay.— Just as some roguish country nurse, Who takes a foundling babe to suckle, First pops the payment in her purse, Then leaves poor dear to—suck its knuckle: Even so these reverend rigmaroles Pocket the money—starve the souls. Murtagh, however, in his glory, Will ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... erratic, brilliant, and impulsive, had never fully harmonized with the politicians of Virginia in their political doctrines, but had been inclined to ridicule the rigid and non-progressive principles of her statesmen, who, always cautious, were now slow to receive into fellowship and to ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various


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