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erraticadjective lacking a definite plan, purpose, or patternso far your effort to land a summer job has been very erratic aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, desultory, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, random, scattered, slapdash, stray accidental, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, fluky(also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, unconsidered, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditatedscattershot, shotgunirregular, odd, sporadic, spotdirectionless, objectless, purposelessindiscriminate, unsystematicundirecteddisorderly, disorganizedundiscriminating, unselective methodical(also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steadyconstant, continuous, evenarranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, plannedaware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful(or wilful) lacking in steadiness or regularity of occurrencebecause of your erratic attendance at practice, you're in danger of being cut from the team aperiodic, casual, catchy, choppy, discontinuous, episodic(also episodical), fitful, intermittent, irregular, occasional, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, unsteady convulsive, sudden, violentbroken, disconnected, fragmentary, interruptedaimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, odd, random, scattered, slapdash, straycapricious, changeful, changing, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, varying, waveringchangeable, fickle, variable, volatile constant, continuous, habitual, periodic, regular, repeated, steady changeless, equable, even, stable, stationary, uniformunchanging, unvarying, unwaveringmethodical(also methodic), orderly, systematicunrelenting, unremitting not staying constantbusiness at the fast-food restaurant has been so erratic lately that the manager never knows how much staff to have on hand changing, fluctuating, irregular, unequal, uneven, unstable, unsteady, varying capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, fluid, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, uncertain, unsettled, variable, volatile changeless, constant, stable, steady, unchanging, unvarying regular different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicionthe animal's erratic behavior made her wonder if it was ill bizarre, bizarro, cranky, crazy, curious, eccentric, far-out, funky, funny, kinky, kooky(also kookie), odd, off-kilter, off-the-wall, offbeat, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, rum(chiefly British), screwy, spaced-out, strange, wacky(also whacky), way-out, weird, weirdo, wild aberrant, abnormal, addlepated, flakyextraordinary, fantastic(also fantastical), freak, freakish, freaky, phantasmagoric(or phantasmagorical), phenomenalatypical, rare, singular, uncommon, uncustomary, unique, unusual, unwontedconspicuous, notable, noticeable, outstanding, prominent, salient, strikingatrocious, outrageous, shockingcrotchety, idiosyncratic, nonconformist, nonmainstream, out-there, unconventional, unorthodoxbaffling, bewildering, confounding, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling average, commonplace, everyday, garden, normal, ordinary, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, workadayconformist, conservative, conventionalexpected, familiar, knee-jerk, predictablecommon, customary, frequent, habitual, regular, wonted strange, singular, unique, peculiar, eccentric, erratic, odd, quaint, outlandish mean departing from what is ordinary, usual, or to be expected.strange stresses unfamiliarity and may apply to the foreign, the unnatural, the unaccountable.a journey filled with strange sights singular suggests individuality or puzzling strangeness.a singular feeling of impending disaster unique implies singularity and the fact of being without a known parallel.a career unique in the annals of science peculiar implies a marked distinctiveness.the peculiar status of America's first lady eccentric suggests a wide divergence from the usual or normal especially in behavior.the eccentric eating habits of preschoolers erratic stresses a capricious and unpredictable wandering or deviating.a friend's suddenly erratic behavior odd applies to a departure from the regular or expected.an odd sense of humor quaint suggests an old-fashioned but pleasant oddness.a quaint fishing village outlandish applies to what is uncouth, bizarre, or barbaric.outlandish fashions of the time in the 14th century |