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Definitions: Erratic |
ErraticAdjective1. Having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond". 2. Liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next". 3. Likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "erratic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | Full of mistakes. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Geography | Rock fragment carried by glacial ice or by floating ice, deposited at some distance from the outcrop from which it was derived and generally, though not necessarily, resting on bedrock of different lithology. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Are boulders on the surface at points far distant from their source rocks. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Language | Deviating from the conventional or usual course; queer; eccentric. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Wandring; having no certain course; . . . irregular. . . . devia deviating from the conventional or usual course; queer; eccentric. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Wandering; having no certain course; . . . irregular. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A rock fragment carried by glacial ice or by floating ice, deposited at some distance from the outcrop from which it was derived, and generally though not necessarily resting on bedrock of different lithology. Sizeranges from a pebble to a house-size block. (references) |
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Synonyms: ErraticSynonyms: fickle (adj), mercurial (adj), planetary (adj), quicksilver(a) (adj), temperamental (adj), wandering (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caprice | Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile. |
Changeableness | Unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating; Verb: restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering. |
Deviation | Adjective: deviating; Verb: aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like. |
Motion | Adjective: moving; Verb: in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless; (changeable); nomadic; erratic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Erratic |
| English words defined with "erratic": disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia ♦ Eccentric strap, Errabund, Erratic phenomena, Erratical, erratically ♦ fickle ♦ hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia ♦ Inerratic ♦ jumping bristletail ♦ machilid ♦ planetary ♦ swerve ♦ unpredictably ♦ volatile ♦ wandering ♦ yaw. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "erratic": boulder stone ♦ crazydawg ♦ drift velocity ♦ erratic block, erratic boulder, erratic error ♦ false bedding ♦ Giardia lamblia, glacial erratic ♦ Peppy Bap ♦ random error. (references) |
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 | Glacial erratic boulder (white boulder in left center) trapped on eroding granite shoreline.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku attacked by USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes, during the morning of 8 May 1942. Flames from a bomb hit on her forecastle are visible, as are smoke and splashes from dive bombers' near misses off her starboard side. Photographed from a Torpedo Squadron Five TBD-1. What appear to be erratic torpedo tracks are visible in the lower left.Credit: NAVY. |
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 | Amusing; arbitrary; capricious; chancy; chimerical; comical; curious; dicey; droll; eccentric; erratic; fanciful; fantastic; flaky; freakish; funny; quaint; unertain; wagish; playful; animated; blithe; bouncy; cheerful; cheery; effervescent; elastic; fanc. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The clinical designations applied to NP are somewhat erratic. (references) | |
Not infrequently such patients have had erratic treatment and followup programs prior to the onset of chronic renal disease. (references) | ||
Large amounts (several hundred milligrams or more) intensify the user's high, but may also lead to bizarre, erratic, and violent behavior. (references) | ||
Business | This exclusion is the result of erratic market performance over the past several years. (references) | |
A lack of transparency in the tendering process, erratic behavior by government, and frequent changes in legislation has posed difficulties to investors. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Afghanistan | Enforcement of Taliban social strictures was erratic; Taliban edicts generally were enforced in the cities, especially in Kabul, but enforced less consistently in rural areas, in which more discretion was permitted based on local custom. (references) |
Economic History | Nepal | Pricing structures in Nepal are erratic. (references) |
Rwanda | However, when world coffee prices fell sharply in the 1980s, growth became erratic. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tunisia | They also claim that erratic court schedules and procedures are designed to deter and discourage observers of political trials. (references) |
Political Economy | INDONESIA | The Government of Indonesia's progress on commitments has been erratic and, as a result, Indonesia has only completed three reviews under the program. (references) |
Indonesia | Over the next 19 months, however, Wahid faced dissension and opposition within his coalition government, fired two Cabinet Ministers in April 2000, installed a new Cabinet in September 2000, and replaced and switched more Ministers in June and July 2001. His political opponents saw him as increasingly erratic and unable to lead. (references) | |
Trade | Burma | Supply of such items is erratic, however. (references) |
Travel | Pakistan | The water supply is erratic in parts of Karachi, requiring delivery by water tanker to residences in some areas. (references) |
Russia | Inclement weather, erratic maintenance and a culture of aggressive driving make road conditions throughout Russia highly variable. (references) | |
Women | Afghanistan | Implementation remained erratic, but the U.N. and NGO's nonetheless required their female staff to remain at home to avoid open confrontation with the Taliban. (references) |
Worker Rights | Thailand | However, implementation of the MOU was erratic, due to insufficient training of law enforcement officials and their unfamiliarity with the law. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Erratic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Erratic" is used about 402 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 402 | 13,930 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "erratic": erratic block ♦ Erratic blocks ♦ erratic boulder ♦ erratic fevers ♦ erratic life ♦ Erratic phenomena ♦ erratic visit ♦ glacial erratic. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
erratic mouse | 8 |
erratic glacial | 6 |
blood erratic pressure | 4 |
erratic | 3 |
beat erratic heart | 3 |
engine erratic idle | 3 |
blood erratic pressure reading | 2 |
erratic mouse movement | 2 |
diskette drive erratic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "erratic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i parregullt (abnormal, inconsistent, incorrect, irregular, out), i hallakatur (discursive, errant, hugger mugger, rambling, scatterbrained), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical), i çrregullt (anomalous, disorderly, fitful, formless, irregular, messy, tumultuary, unkempt, untidy), i çoroditur (addle-brained, addle-pated, anile, haywire, perverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجروف, غير منظم (amorphous, patchy, ragged, rough, unorganized), ضال (aberrant, astray, errata, lost, rogue, stray, wandering), صخر مجروف, شخص غريب الأطوار (codger, crack, curious, eccentric, quiz), شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, freak, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping, wild), شارد (errant, inattentive, runaway, scampish, stray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скитник (bum, casual, derelict, drifter, floater, hobo, itinerant, knockabout, land-loper, land-louper, nomad, on the wallaby, roadster, roamer, rover, runabout, straggler, swagman, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), капризен (capricious, faddish, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, freaky, fretful, ill, inconstant, maggoty, particular, petulant, skittish, tricksy, vagarious, vagrant, wayward, whimsical), особняк (card, crank, freak, oddity, original), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo), ератичен, безотговорен (carefree, happy go lucky, harum scarum, irresponsible, shiftless, unconscionable, wildcat, worthless), блуждаещ (errant, excursive, faraway, planetary, vacant, vagrant), променлив (baffling, changeable, choppy, fitful, fluctuating, fluent, inconsistent, inconstant, liquid, mobile, protean, shifting, undecided, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, varied, versatile, volatile), изменчив (variable, volatile), довлечен от ледник. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 古怪 (Erratical, Excentric, kooky, Quirky, Quizzical, Weird, Weirdness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vrtošivý (fanciful, incalculable, temperamental, wayward), nevyrovnaný (uneven, unpaid, unsettled), nestálý (changeable, fickle, floating, impermanent, inconstant, passing, unceasing, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, volatile), nepravidelný (irregular, ragged, unequal, uneven, unsteady), náladový (capricious, crotchety, freakish, Moody, temperamental, whimsical), kolísavý (fluctuating, jumpy, unstable, wavering), bloudící (aberrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | erratisk blok (erratic block, erratic boulder, glacial erratic, stray block), erratisk, vandrende (garland, migrating, water garland), vandreblok (erratic block, erratic boulder, glacial erratic, stray block). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | erratisch, erraticus, zwerfsteen (erratic block, erratic boulder, glacial erratic, stray block), zwerfkei (erratic block, erratic boulder, glacial erratic, stray block). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | متلون (Changeable, Protean), نامنظم (Acrostic), غیرمعقول (Extravagant, Unconscionable), غیرقابل پیش بینی , سرگردان (Adrift, Astray, Discursive, Gadabout, Rambler, Strafe, Straggle, Stray, Wanderer), دمدمی مزاج (Capricious, Cyclothyme, Pliant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | siirtolohkare (boulder, cobble, erratic block, erratic boulder, glacial erratic, pebble, stray block). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | erratique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erratisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλάνης λίθος (erratic block, erratic boulder, glacial erratic, stray block), πλανόδιοσ (errant, itinerant, peripatetic), εκκεντρικόσ (aberrational, bizarre, crackpot, cranky, eccentric, fogey, fogy, notional, pixilated, screw-ball, wacky, weirdie), ασταθήσ (choppy, inconstant, infirm, top heavy, tottering, tottery, unstable, unsteady, wabbly), αλλοπρόσαλλοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יוצא "ופן (eccentric, exceptional, exotic, extraordinary, irregular, maverick, signal, singular, unusual), בלתי יציב (unstable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | akadozó, szeszélyes (be capricious, capricious, changeful, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, have a little finger ache, have moods, kinky, maggoty, mercurial, moody, peevish, petulant, skittish, wanton, whimsical), rendetlen (cluttered, deranged, dingy, disorderly, flipperty-flopperty, higgledy-piggledy, messy, pell mell, ragged, rooky, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, snuffy, straggly, tumultuous, unkempt, untidy), kiszámíthatatlan (imponderable, incalculable, unpredictable, wacky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak menentu (chancy, touch and go). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | erratico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 突飛 (extraordinary, offbeat, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | とっぴ (extraordinary, offbeat, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불규칙 (Erratical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | corragh (chequered, chequered as career, crazy, eccentric, falling, hectic, infirm, irresolute, jerry-built, rocky place, sensitive, skittish, troubled, troubled of period, unbalanced, unbalanced of mind, uneven, uneven as temper, wobbly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | ujevn, uberegnelig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erraticay errático. (various references) eratic, nesigur (chancy, conjectural, doubtful, dubious, fitful, hesitating, in doubt, inconstant, indecisive, insecure, irresolutely, rocky, ticklish, uncertain, unsafe), neregulat (broken, disorderly, fitful, irregular, irregularly, odd, patchy, ragged, rugged, scraggy, snatchy, unequal, uneven), neconstant, intermitent (discontinuous, intermittent, intermittently, jerkily, jerky, remittent), inegal (matchlessly, unequable, unequal, unequally, uneven), dezordonat (dishevelled, disorderly, ill-regulated, irregular, messy, riotous, slipshod, unkempt, untidy). (various references) сумасбродный (daffy, madcap, screwy), отклоняющийся от нормы (abnormal), неустойчивый (astable, changeable, dicky, grog, groggy, inconstant, infirm, labile, ramshackle, top heavy, topheavy, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly, wavering, yielding), неуверенный (insecure of, unassured, uncertain, unsure), беспорядочный (chaotic, disorderly, haywire, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, inordinate, messy, pell mell, rambling, random, rough and tumble, shambolic, topsy turvy, tumultuary, tumultuous, undigested, unregulated, upside down). (various references) nestalan (changeable, fickle, fleeting, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, shifty, skittish, transient, unabiding, unsteady, versatile, volatile, voluble), nepravilan (erroneous, irregular, unlawful, wrong). (various references) errático. (various references) oregelbunden (abnormal, anomalous, fitful, intermittent, irregular, snatchy, unequal, unsteady), flyttblock (boulder, bowlder, erratic block, erratic boulder, glacial erratic, nodule, stray block). (various references) ไม่แน่ไม่นอน, คนที่เอาแน่ไม่ไ"้. (various references) tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), gezen, değişken (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, factor, fickle, fitful, flexible, flexile, fluid, fluxional, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, inequable, labile, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, sliding, streaked, streaky, swinging, uncertain, unfunded, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, versatile), düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, excursive, fitful, freehand, haywire, hugger mugger, huggermugger, indigested, inordinate, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, non-uniform, out of order, out of square, out of trim, out-of-balance, patchily, patchy, ragged, rambling, snatchy, snuffy, unequal, unkempt, unsteady, untidy). (various references) чудний (antic, bizarre, droll, funny, odd, oddball, oddish, outlandish, singular, strange), нестійкий (astatic, broken, catching, chancy, dicky, drunk, groggy, infirm, labile, non-persistent, non-resistant, quaky, sliding, staggering, tickle, top heavy, unbalanced, unfixed, unsettled, unsteady, wambly, yielding), неуважний (absent, absentminded, abstracted, careless, distrait, faraway, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, mused, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, oscitant, outward, unmindful, vague). (various references) thất thường (arbitrary, capricious, casual, erratically, fit, start), người bạ đâu hay đấy, người được chăng hay chớ, được chăng hay chớ (erratically, hit-or-mis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "erratic": erratical, erratically, erraticism, erraticisms, erratics. (additional references) | |
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"Erratic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecratic, ecrratic, Elrathia, eratic, erattic, eravi, erractic, erradic, erratas, errate, erratica, erratics, erraticz, erratuc, errotic, errratic, ferritic, iratic, irratic, merpati, Urrutia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "erratic" (pronounced ira"tik) |
| 5 | -r a" t i k | aristocratic, autocratic, bureaucratic, democratic, idiosyncratic, technocratic, theocratic, undemocratic. |
| 4 | -a" t i k | acrobatic, aerobatic, aromatic, asthmatic, asymptomatic, attic, automatic, axiomatic, charismatic, cinematic, climatic, diagrammatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, electrostatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, enzymatic, fanatic, hepatic, homeostatic, idiomatic, lymphatic, mathematic, melodramatic, monochromatic, numismatic, operatic, pancreatic, phosphatic, pneumatic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, prostatic, psychosomatic, rheumatic, schematic, semiautomatic, static, symptomatic, systematic, thematic, traumatic, undiplomatic. |
| 3 | -t i k | acetic, acoustic, aesthetic, agnostic, alphabetic, altruistic, amniotic, anachronistic, analytic, anesthetic, antagonistic, Antarctic, antibiotic, antic, anticlimactic, antiseptic, aortic, apathetic, apocalyptic, apologetic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, arithmetic, arthritic, artistic, ascetic, astronautic, atavistic, atheistic, athletic, authentic, autistic, ballistic, bombastic, capitalistic, catalytic, cathartic, caustic, chaotic, characteristic, chauvinistic, chiropractic, climactic, coloristic, cosmetic, critic, cryptic, cultic, cystic, dendritic, despotic, deterministic, diabetic, diagnostic, dialectic, diamagnetic, didactic, dietetic, diuretic, domestic, drastic, drumstick, dualistic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, eclectic, ecliptic, elastic, electrolytic, electromagnetic, emetic, empathetic, energetic, enthusiastic, epigenetic, epileptic, erotic, euphemistic, evangelistic, exotic, expressionistic, extragalactic, fantastic, fatalistic, ferromagnetic, feudalistic, fiberoptic, frantic, frenetic, futuristic, galactic, genetic, geomagnetic, gigantic, granitic, gymnastic, halophytic, hectic, hedonistic, hemolytic, heretic, hermaphroditic, holistic, homiletic, humanistic, hyperkinetic, hypnotic, iconoclastic, idealistic, idiotic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, inelastic, interscholastic, jingoistic, journalistic, kinesthetic, kinetic, lactic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, magnetic, majestic, masochistic, materialistic, mechanistic, militaristic, monastic, monopolistic, moralistic, mystic, narcissistic, narcotic, nationalistic, naturalistic, neritic, neurotic, novelistic, oligopolistic, onomastic, opportunistic, optic, optimistic, orthodontic, pantheistic, paralytic, paramagnetic, parasitic, parasympathetic, parthenogenetic, paternalistic, pathetic, patriotic, patristic, pectic, pedantic, peptic, peripatetic, pessimistic, phonetic, plastic, pluralistic, poetic, polytheistic, porphyritic, primitivistic, propagandistic, prophetic, prophylactic, prosthetic, psychoanalytic, psychotherapeutic, psychotic, puristic, quixotic, realistic, relativistic, ritualistic, robotic, romantic, rustic, sadistic, sarcastic, scholastic, semantic, semiotic, sensationalistic, septic, simplistic, skeptic, socialistic, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, sycophantic, symbiotic, sympathetic, synergistic, synthetic, tactic, terroristic, therapeutic, thermoplastic, thrombolytic, transatlantic, triptych, unapologetic, unauthentic, uncharacteristic, unenthusiastic, unpatriotic, unrealistic, unsympathetic, voyeuristic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cirrate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: artier, carter, crater, irater, racier, tracer. | |
-2 letters: airer, areic, carer, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, crate, crier, erica, irate, racer, rater, react, recta, recti, retia, ricer, tarre, terai, terra, trace, triac, trice, trier. | |
-3 letters: acre, airt, care, carr, cart, cate, cire, cite, etic, race, rare, rate, rear, rice, rite, tace, tare, tear, tier. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: catbrier, craftier, criteria, erratics. | |
+2 letters: artificer, careerist, carrotier, cartridge, catbriers, certainer, charriest, cratering, curtailer, erratical, geriatric, oratrices, practicer, racketier, recrating, rectorial, reticular, retracing, rubricate, scarriest, starchier, tarriance, terracing, traceried, traceries, trierarch. | |
+3 letters: architrave, archpriest, artificers, barometric, bioreactor, careerists, caricature, carritches, carrotiest, cartridges, catarrhine, certiorari, charioteer, chartering, contraries, craterlike, crematoria, curtailers, diarrhetic, eradicator, erraticism, fratricide, geriatrics, haircutter, meritocrat, parametric, parritches, practicers, reaccredit, recharting, recreating, recreation, recreative, refractile, refracting, refraction, refractive, replicator, retracking, retractile, retracting, retraction, rhetorical, rubricated, rubricates, scratchier, tarriances, tetrameric, tetrarchic, trafficker, transcribe, triarchies, trierarchs, trierarchy, trifurcate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 72 72 61 74 69 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-. .-. .- - .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110010 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E r r a t i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0072 0072 0061 0074 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39848467867569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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