erratic
adjective/ɪˈrætɪk/
/ɪˈrætɪk/
(often disapproving)- not happening at regular times; not following any plan or regular pattern; that you cannot rely on synonym unpredictable
- The electricity supply here is quite erratic.
- She had learnt to live with his sudden changes of mood and erratic behaviour.
- Mary is a gifted but erratic player (= she does not always play well).
- Irrigation measures will be necessary in areas of erratic rainfall.
- their increasingly erratic policy decisions
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- become
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French erratique, from Latin erraticus, from errare ‘to stray, err’.Definitions on the go
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