erratically
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6.4
- adverb
- /ɪˈrætɪkli/
:
erráticamente
- Then it shuffled off as erratically as it had come.
- swims erratically
- rapidly and erratically
- only erratically
If someone is driving erratically, give them a wide berth.
- If someone is driving erratically, give them a wide berth.
- Your hands get cold, they start to sweat, your muscles get tense, you start to breathe erratically, and it all happens instantaneously.
- So one day I'm sitting and reading my, my dog's like being not erratically.
- It's this loose hinge and you become very, very erratically and extremely reactive from a neural perspective.
Examples
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Soon the machines began to twist and turn erratically and plunge dangerously low over the crowd.
Fiction book (1995) -
The dog ran erratically in the park, darting between trees and chasing after anything that moved.
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You remember they move erratically across the sky and they even twist and turn.
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Be on high alert for any robots acting erratically.
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If someone is driving erratically, give them a wide berth.
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No, sir, it was behaving erratically, walking in circles, then it went down on its own about an hour ago.
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Patients who have historically attended mental health appointments erratically attend group sessions regularly.
Academic text (1990) -
The heart monitor traced its own thin red line that flared and subsided erratically.
Fiction book (1995) -
The fully inflated rubber plane flies down the street, dipping and rising erratically.
Fiction book (2002) -
Then suddenly it begins to weave erratically, changing lanes, before drifting dangerously to a full stop, almost sideways.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
126
2.4
In a way that has no clear plan or order
44
2.7
By chance, without any plan or order
27
5.5
In a way that has no clear reason or plan
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6.0
In a way that stops and starts at irregular times
13
6.5
Happening only sometimes and not regularly
9
6.1
In a way that is not planned or organized
8
3.5
In a way that makes some parts different from others
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4.8
In a way you cannot guess before it happens
4
4.2
Happens at different times and not in a steady way
3
4.1
In a way that is not the same each time
1
5.6
In a wild, disordered way
In a way that has no regular beat or pattern
In a way that uses random chance to choose results
In a way that is not steady and likely to move, change, or fall
Antonyms
How Irregular
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Erratically comes from the Latin errare, 'to wander', and shares the same root as err and error. So when something happens erratically, it 'wanders' from one way to another and is irregular or hard to predict.