单词 | erratic |
释义 | erratic —erratically, adv. —erraticism, n. /i rat"ik/, adj. 1. deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion; eccentric; queer: erratic behavior. 2. having no certain or definite course; wandering; not fixed: erratic winds. 3. Geol. noting or pertaining to a boulder or the like carried by glacial ice and deposited some distance from its place of origin. 4. (of a lichen) having no attachment to the surface on which it grows. n. 5. an erratic or eccentric person. 6. Geol. an erratic boulder or the like. [1325-75; ME < L erraticus, equiv. to errat(us) (ptp. of errare to ERR) + -icus -IC] Syn. 1. unpredictable, unstable, capricious. Ant. 1. consistent, regular, stable. |
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