What is the meaning of erratic?

adjective

  • Liable to sudden unpredictable change.
    • usage: "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
  • Having no fixed course.
    • usage: "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
  • 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
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