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| 1. | [ adjective ] liable to sudden unpredictable change | |
| Synonyms: | mercurial quicksilver fickle | |
| Examples: | "erratic behavior" "fickle weather" "mercurial twists of temperament" "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" |
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| Related terms: | changeable | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] having no fixed course | |
| Synonyms: | wandering planetary | |
| Examples: | "an erratic comet" "his life followed a wandering course" "a planetary vagabond" |
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| Related terms: | unsettled | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] likely to perform unpredictably | |
| Synonyms: | temperamental | |
| Examples: | "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor" "a temperamental motor sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't" "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster |
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| Related terms: | unreliable | |
| Similar spelling: |
erotic erotica eroticism eradicate erotically eradicator eradicable erotism |
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