noun
definition
A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.
definition
Anything that has erratic characteristics.
adjective
definition
Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent
example
Henry has been getting erratic scores on his tests: 40% last week, but 98% this week.
definition
Deviating from normal opinions or actions; eccentric; odd.
example
erratic conduct
Examples of erratic in a Sentence
Erratic blocks are of frequent occurrence in south Jutland.
His erratic moods had grown more volatile the past couple of days, and she knew better than to draw his attention.
He listened to her erratic breathing, beyond satisfied at the effect he had on her.
He was an able but erratic administrator and soldier, and a brilliant lawyer.
Its channel is generally erratic and constantly shifting;.
He was somewhat erratic in his methods, but his lectures were a triumph of influential personality.
The rainfall in the low country is more erratic than on the plateau, and in some districts, a whole year will pass without rain.
The process of disintegration and levelling down has reached such an advanced stage that, if ever there did exist evidences of former glaciation, they have now become entirely obliterated, even to the complete pulverization of the erratic blocks, supposing there were any.
Rocks scored by glacial ice and showing plain indications of striation, together with thousands of erratic blocks, are found scattered all over Iceland.
The only difficulty is occasioned by the erratic zigzag current.
He wrote also on the motion of glaciers and the transport of erratic blocks.
The information was coming in too fast - and erratic.
Those who sleep erratic hours often face insomnia.
His behavior became increasingly erratic, and his career suffered.
Van den Ende appears to have been distinctly a man of parts, though of a somewhat indiscreet and erratic character.
Toddlers are learning at a rate that can make their behavior erratic.
More erratic behavior resulted in her losing visitation rights, and she was admitted to a psych ward.
Fred O'Connor's usual behavior was often erratic.
On the death of Zajonczek in 1$26, the grand duke Constantine became Imperial lieutenant, and his administration, The Grand though erratic, was not unfavourable to displays nuke Con- of Polish nationality.
He led, separated from his family, an erratic life for some years; was divorced from his consort in 1812; and finally settled at St Gall in Switzerland in great loneliness and indigence.
Wrote a rather erratic account of Prices first visit.
Its handling seemed erratic, so we kept a lookout.
He then revved away in a big erratic huff.
The male Serin was also still around, but it too made only brief and erratic visits to the Obs garden in the morning.
His publicist denies rumors that Hasselhoff has been drinking again and blames his erratic behavior on medication prescribed to ease an infection in his hand.
Though returning to rehab has not even been mentioned by Phoenix's people, some that claim to be close with him state that he's had a very "traumatic" 2008, which has lead to his erratic behavior.
This barrage of sensations can over-stimulate the empath and even manifest as erratic behavior.
He and Ephram become friends, but Colin's increasingly erratic behavior proves something is wrong with him.
Unfortunately, each podcast has a different presenter and the production schedule appears to be somewhat erratic.
She rested her cheek against his, and they breathed the same air, his steady and hers erratic.
And who wouldn't recommend Arnie's removal with his increasingly erratic behavior?
He grew more controlling as the days progressed, more possessive and erratic.
His brilliant parts were somewhat obscured by his rather erratic conduct, and a certain contempt, partly aristocratic and partly intellectual, for commonplace men and ways.
Ogata Kerin (1653-1716) is claimed by both the Tosa and Kano schools, but his work bears more resemblance to that of an erratic offshoot of the Kano line named Sotatsu than to the typical work of the academies.
It is necessary to remember this when the somewhat erratic and irregular character of the operations which followed is judged.
This species occurs in England the whole year round, and is presumed to have bred there, though the fact has never been satisfactorily proved, and knowledge of its erratic habits comes from naturalists in Pomerania and Sweden.
Both of these procedures are arbitrary in their principle, and liable to be erratic in their application.
She was a schoolmistress until 1828, when she married David Lee Child (1794-1874), a brilliant but erratic Boston lawyer and journalist.
They resemble the erratic blocks which lost amid alien soils recall, where we find them, the geological conditions of earlier ages.
Fiinen, geologically a part of southern Jutland, has similar characteristics, a smiling landscape of fertile meadows, the typical beech-forests clothing the low hills and the presence of numerous erratic blocks, are the superficial signs of likeness.
The glacial origin of the Pamir valleys is everywhere apparent in their terrace formations and the erratic blocks and boulders that lie scattered about their surface.
In 1844 Lord Ellenborough was recalled by the court of directors, who differed from him on many points of administration, and distrusted his erratic genius.
Erratic blocks are scattered throughout the island, and the roads are made with granite.
For the reservation of the water-partings in the past considerably denuded by lumbermen and ranchmen the increase of the forest areas, and the creation of reservoirs along the rivers, to control their erratic flow 2 and impound their flood waste for purposes of irrigation, much has been done by the national government.
Hitherto they had been erratic, lukewarm and poorly attended (vagae, tepentes, infrequentesque); those which he instituted were characterized by fasting, prayers, psalms and tears."
Of his two capital errors, regarding respectively the theory of the tides and the nature of comets, the first was insidiously recommended to him by his passionate desire to find a physical confirmation of the earth's double motion; the second was adopted for the purpose of rebutting an anti-Copernican argument founded on the planetary analogies of those erratic subjects of the sun.
Her breathing was erratic, her pulse flying, her lower belly ablaze with warmth.
Samson's putting stone - a glacial erratic boulder can be seen up on the hillside to the right.
This large glacial erratic bounder is slightly smaller and different in shape to the Gray Mare.
Slow left-arm bowlers have a tendency to be mavericks; erratic, not as bowlers, but in other ways.