erratic
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(s) 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
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(s) having no fixed course
- an erratic comet
- his life followed a wandering course
- a planetary vagabond
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(s) 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