erratic

  • (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
    mercurial, quicksilver, fickle,
  • (s) having no fixed course
    • an erratic comet
    • his life followed a wandering course
    • a planetary vagabond
    planetary, wandering,
  • (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
    temperamental,

Synonyms

mercurial quicksilver fickle planetary wandering temperamental

Words of close approximity

erratum
erratically