Erratic vs Labile - What's the difference?
erratic | labile |
unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent
Deviating from the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; odd.
(geology) A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 372:
Anything that has erratic characteristics.
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Apt or likely to change.
*, II.12:
(chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
As adjectives the difference between erratic and labile
is that erratic is unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent while labile is liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.As a noun erratic
is (geology) a rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.erratic
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Alternative forms
* erratick, erraticke, erratique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Henry has been getting erratic scores on his tests: 40% last week, but 98% this week.
- erratic conduct
Derived terms
* erraticallyAntonyms
* consistentNoun
(en noun)- The term for a displaced boulder is an erratic , but in the nineteenth century the expression seemed to apply more often to the theories than to the rocks.
Anagrams
*labile
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding and labile .
- Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
- Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.