Associations to the word «Erratic»

Wiktionary

ERRATIC, adjective. Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent
ERRATIC, adjective. Deviating from the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; odd.
ERRATIC, noun. (geology) A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.
ERRATIC, noun. Anything that has erratic characteristics.

Dictionary definition

ERRATIC, adjective. 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".
ERRATIC, adjective. Having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond".
ERRATIC, adjective. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats