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[ adjective ] liable to sudden unpredictable change
Synonyms Examples "erratic behavior" "fickle weather" "mercurial twists of temperament" "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" Used in print (Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)The liquid phase photochemical_exchange between chlorine and carbon_tetrachloride was more reproducible than the thermal exchange , although still erratic . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] likely to perform unpredictably
Synonyms Examples "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 Related terms |
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