Definitions for erratics

erratics er·rat·ic

Spelling: [ih-rat-ik]
IPA: /ɪˈræt ɪk/

Erratics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 407 anagrams from letters in erratics (aceirrst).

Definitions for erratics

noun

  1. an erratic or eccentric person.
  2. Geology. an erratic boulder or the like.

adjective

  1. deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion; eccentric; queer:
  2. having no certain or definite course; wandering; not fixed:
  3. Geology. noting or pertaining to a boulder or the like carried by glacial ice and deposited some distance from its place of origin.
  4. (of a lichen) having no attachment to the surface on which it grows.

Origin of erratics

1325-75; Middle English Latin errāticus, equivalent to errāt(us) (past participle of errāre to err) + -icus -ic

Examples for erratics

The responding officers appear to understand the grief behind his erratic action but still want to take a look around the house.

With them we think of the artificial as the archetype; the earth-born as the erratic exception.

The animation is beautifully rendered and the storytelling top notch even if the pacing is, at times, erratic.

Calhoun swung it on an erratic course, lest there be opposition.

John McCain was an erratic RINO who turned a hundred years old on the campaign trail.

He worked in his erratic way all winter, and certainly did have some success.

Sam was volatile and elusive; his industry of an erratic kind.

Susan, holding on against the erratic swayings of the cart, pretended not to hear.

His erratic behaviour in handling Russian oil pipelines prompted Moscow to seek alternative routes of supply.

Her arms strapped back, Lehmberg tells the officials “this erratic behavior is going to ruin my career.”

Word Value for erratics
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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