(often disapproving) not happening at regular times; not following any plan or regular pattern; that you cannot rely on
SYNUNPREDICTABLE:
The electricity supply here is quite erratic. * She had learnt to live with his sudden changes of mood and erratic behaviour. * Mary is a gifted but erratic player (= she does not always play well). * Irrigation measures will be necessary in areas of erratic rainfall.
erratically adverb:
He was obviously upset and was driving erratically. * His heart beat erratically.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for erratic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is erratic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, erratic is tagged as adjective.
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