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erratic

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erratic in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  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"
    erratic  fickle  mercurial  quicksilver 
  2. 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
    erratic  temperamental 
  3. having no fixed course
    "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
    erratic  planetary  wandering 
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