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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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