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Meaning of erratic

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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: {erratic},
             {fickle}, {mercurial}, {quicksilver(a)}]
      2: having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life
         followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn:
         {erratic}, {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:
         {erratic}, {temperamental}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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