American English pronunciation
How to pronounce erratic
IPA transcription: [ɪ'ɹætɪk]
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Adjective
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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”
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having no fixed course
“an erratic comet”
“his life followed a wandering course”
“a planetary vagabond”
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likely to perform unpredictably; ; ; - Osbert Lancaster
“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”
Usage examples
- Other times it can be very erratic.
- He went into an erratic skid before hitting a light pole and overturning.
- Glacial features along the trail include kettles, potholes, eskers, and glacial erratics.
- At first his progress was slow and erratic.
- Go-Toba used such techniques consistently and often, whereas Teika's use was more erratic.
- It may also be used of large glacial erratics moved by natural forces.
- Powell was hospitalized in New York after months of increasingly erratic behavior and self-neglect.
- Its motion was erratic, because of the single cylinder, and it produced insufficient steam.
- Train frequencies were also erratic, with higher frequencies on some days that on other.
- These returns highlighted Van Bunge's erratic bowling style.