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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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