| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Following no predictable pattern: capricious, changeable, erratic, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, freakish, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental, ticklish, uncertain, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, volatile, whimsical. See CHANGE, CONTINUE. 2. Capable of or liable to change: alterable, changeable, fluid, inconstant, mutable, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variant. Archaic : various. See CHANGE. 3. Lacking consistency or regularity in quality or performance: erratic, inconsistent, patchy, spotty, uneven, unsteady. See CONTINUE, SAME.
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