erratic

1 lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern so far your effort to land a summer job has been very erratic Synonyms of erratic aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, desultory, random, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, scattered, slapdash, strayWords Related to erratic accidental, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, fluky (also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, unconsidered, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated; scattershot, shotgun; irregular, odd, sporadic, spot; directionless, objectless, purposeless; indiscriminate, unsystematic; undirected; disorderly, disorganized; undiscriminating, unselectiveNear Antonyms of erratic established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steady; constant, continuous, even; arranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, planned; aware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful (or wilful)Antonyms of erratic methodical (also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized

2 lacking in steadiness or regularity of occurrence because of your erratic attendance at practice, you're in danger of being cut from the team Synonyms of erratic aperiodic, casual, catchy, choppy, discontinuous, episodic (also episodical), fitful, intermittent, irregular, occasional, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, unsteadyWords Related to erratic convulsive, sudden, violent; 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; changeable, fickle, variable, volatileNear Antonyms of erratic changeless, equable, even, stable, stationary, uniform; unchanging, unvarying, unwavering; methodical (also methodic), orderly, systematic; unrelenting, unremittingAntonyms of erratic constant, continuous, habitual, periodic, regular, repeated, steady

3 not staying constant business at the fast-food restaurant has been so erratic lately that the manager never knows how much staff to have on hand Synonyms of erratic changing, uneven, fluctuating, irregular, unequal, unstable, unsteady, varyingWords Related to erratic capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, fluid, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, uncertain, unsettled, variable, volatileNear Antonyms of erratic regularAntonyms of erratic changeless, constant, stable, steady, unchanging, unvarying

4 different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion the key to the code was the erratic punctuation the killer used Synonyms of erratic bizarre, bizarro, cranky, crazy, curious, eccentric, odd, far-out, funky, funny, kinky, kooky (also kookie), offbeat, off-kilter, off-the-wall, outlandish, out-of-the-way, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, rum [chiefly British], screwy, spaced-out, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, weirdo, wildWords Related to erratic aberrant, abnormal, addlepated, flaky; extraordinary, fantastic (also fantastical), freak, freakish, freaky, phantasmagoric (or phantasmagorical), phenomenal; atypical, rare, singular, uncommon, uncustomary, unique, unusual, unwonted; conspicuous, notable, noticeable, outstanding, prominent, salient, striking; atrocious, outrageous, shocking; crotchety, idiosyncratic, nonconformist, nonmainstream, out-there, unconventional, unorthodox; baffling, bewildering, confounding, mystifying, perplexing, puzzlingNear Antonyms of erratic average, commonplace, everyday, garden, normal, ordinary, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, workaday; conformist, conservative, conventional; expected, familiar, knee-jerk, predictable; common, customary, frequent, habitual, regular, wonted