3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erratic \Er*rat"ic\, n.
1. One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one
who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual
character.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erratic \Er*rat"ic\, a. [L. erraticus fr errare to wander: cf
F. erratique See {Err}.]
1. Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed
destination; wandering; moving -- hence applied to the
planets as distinguished from the fixed stars.
The earth and each erratic world. --Blackmore.
2. Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or
conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as erratic conduct.
3. Irregular; changeable. ``Erratic fever.'' --Harvey.
{Erratic blocks}, {gravel, etc.} (Geol.), masses of stone
which have been transported from their original resting
places by the agency of water, ice, or other causes.
{Erratic phenomena}, the phenomena which relate to
transported materials on the earth's surface.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
erratic
adj 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" [syn: {fickle}, {mercurial},
{quicksilver(a)}]
2: having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life
followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn:
{planetary}, {wandering}]
3: 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
[syn: {temperamental}]
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