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erratic
Synonyms and Antonyms of erratic
- So far your effort to land a summer job has been very erratic.
established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steady
arranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, planned
aware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful (or wilful)
methodical (also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized
- Because of your erratic attendance at practice, you're in danger of being cut from the team.
aperiodic, casual, catchy, choppy, discontinuous, episodic (also episodical), fitful, intermittent, irregular, occasional, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, unsteady
broken, disconnected, fragmentary, interrupted
aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, odd, random, scattered, slapdash, stray
capricious, changeful, changing, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, varying, wavering
- Business at the fast-food restaurant has been so erratic lately that the manager never knows how much staff to have on hand.
- Its erratic punctuation made me wonder if the email was a scam from a foreign country.
bizarre, cranky, crazy, curious, eccentric, far-out, funky, funny, kooky (also kookie), odd, off-kilter, off-the-wall, offbeat, out-of-the-way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, screwy, spaced-out, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild
aberrant, abnormal, addlepated, flaky
extraordinary, fantastic (also fantastical), freak, freakish, freaky, phenomenal
atypical, rare, singular, uncommon, uncustomary, unique, unusual, unwonted
conspicuous, notable, noticeable, outstanding, prominent, salient, striking
atrocious, outrageous, shocking
out-there, unconventional, unorthodox
baffling, bewildering, confounding, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling
Synonym Discussion of erratic
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- a journey filled with strange sights
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- a singular feeling of impending disaster
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- a career unique in the annals of science
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- the peculiar status of America's first lady
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- the eccentric eating habits of preschoolers
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- a friend's suddenly erratic behavior
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- an odd sense of humor
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- a quaint fishing village
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- outlandish fashions of the time
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