'Erratic' definitions:
Definition of 'erratic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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)]
adjective
Having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: erratic, planetary, wandering]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Erratic'
From: GCIDE
- Erratic \Er*rat"ic\, n.
- 1. One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A rogue. [Obs.] --Cockeram. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Erratic'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The earth and each erratic world. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Irregular; changeable. "Erratic fever." --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'erratic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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