What does erratic mean?
Erratic means Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent..
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/ɪˈɹætɪk/ · adjective
Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent..
Henry has been getting erratic scores on his tests: 40% last week, but 98% this week.
The V-2's directional system was notoriously erratic. In May 1947, a V-2 launched from White Sands Proving Ground headed south instead of north, missing downtown Juarez, Mexico, by 3 miles.
erratic conduct
The term for a displaced boulder is an erratic, but in the nineteenth century the expression seemed to apply more often to the theories than to the rocks.
During the last ice-age, massive stones were carried for miles by the scouring glaciers, only to be left, like passengers at the end of the line, when the glaciers retreated. Stranded in their new surroundings with rocks with which they share no common geology, their out-of-place-ness is evoked by their name: “erratics”.
Use erratic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Erratic means Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent..
Common synonyms include dropstone, mercurial, temperamental, unsettled.
Possible antonyms include consistent.
Henry has been getting erratic scores on his tests: 40% last week, but 98% this week.
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