Erratic




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Erratic \Er*rat"ic\, a. [L. erraticus, fr. errare to wander: cf.
F. erratique. See Err.]

1. Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed
destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the
planets as distinguished from the fixed stars.
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The earth and each erratic world. --Blackmore.
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2. Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or
conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct.
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3. Irregular; changeable. "Erratic fever." --Harvey.
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Erratic blocks, gravel, etc. (Geol.), masses of stone
which have been transported from their original resting
places by the agency of water, ice, or other causes.

Erratic phenomena, the phenomena which relate to
transported materials on the earth's surface.
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Erratic \Er*rat"ic\, n.

1. One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one
who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual
character.
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2. A rogue. [Obs.] --Cockeram.
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3. (Geol.) Any stone or material that has been borne away
from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large
block or fragment of rock; a bowlder.
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Note: In the plural the term is applied especially to the
loose gravel and stones on the earth's surface,
including what is called drift.
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erratic
adj 1: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic
behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of
temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful
at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic,
fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)]

2: having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life
followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn:
erratic, planetary, wandering]

3: likely to perform unpredictably; "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 [syn:
erratic, temperamental]
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erratic [irætik]
fahrig; unstet; wandernd

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erratic

fahrig; unstet; sprunghaft adj
erratic

unberechenbar; unkontrolliert; ungleichmäßig; unregelmäßig;
fehlerhaft adj
erratic

wandernd
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271 Moby Thesaurus words for "erratic":
aberrant, aberrative, abnormal, adrift, afloat, agnostic, aimless,
alternating, ambiguous, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, bizarre,
broken, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, chancy, changeable,
changeful, changing, character, choppy, circuitous, crackpot,
crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, curving, departing, desultory,
deviable, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, dicey,
different, digressive, directionless, disarticulated, disconnected,
discontinuous, discursive, disjunct, disordered, disorderly,
dispersed, disproportionate, divagatory, divaricate, divergent,
diversified, diversiform, dizzy, dotty, doubtful, doubting,
dubious, eccentric, equivocal, erose, errant, exceptional,
excursive, extraordinary, fast and loose, fey, fickle, fitful,
flake, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuant,
fluctuating, formless, freak, freakish, frivolous, funny, giddy,
gratuitous, guttering, halting, haphazard, herky-jerky, hesitant,
hesitating, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss, idiocratic,
idiosyncratic, iffy, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive,
incalculable, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant,
indecisive, indemonstrable, indirect, indiscriminate, infirm,
intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible,
jagged, jerky, kinky, kook, kooky, labyrinthine, lurching, maggoty,
mazy, meandering, meaningless, mercurial, misshapen, moody, motley,
mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic,
nonuniform, nut, nutty, odd, oddball, orderless, out-of-the-way,
outlandish, patchy, peculiar, planetary, planless, pluralistic,
polysemous, promiscuous, quaint, queer, quirky, ragged, rambling,
random, recluse, restless, rough, roundabout, roving,
scatterbrained, scrappy, screwball, screwy, senseless, serpentine,
shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, singular, skeptical, snaky,
snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless,
sporadic, spotty, staggering, straggling, straggly, strange,
strange duck, stray, straying, subnormal, swerving, systemless,
touch-and-go, turning, twisted, twisting, unaccountable,
unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, unconfirmable, uncontrolled,
unconventional, unconvinced, undependable, undirected,
undisciplined, undivinable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed,
unforeseeable, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical,
unnatural, unordered, unorganized, unorthodox, unpersuaded,
unpredictable, unprovable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained,
unrhythmical, unsettled, unsorted, unstable, unstable as water,
unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, unsymmetrical,
unsystematic, ununiform, unusual, unverifiable, vacillating,
vagarious, vagrant, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various,
varying, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile,
wacky, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weird,
weirdo, whimsical, winding, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly,
zigzag



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