erratic
er·ra·tic
adjective
1.
2.
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”
3.
likely to perform unpredictably
- “erratic winds are the bane of a sailor”
- “a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn”
- “;”
Origin
From Middle English erratik, erratyk, from Latin errāticus; compare Old French erratique.
Phrases
- glacial erratic
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