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Extraordinary vs Erratic - What's the difference?

extraordinary | erratic |

As adjectives the difference between extraordinary and erratic

is that extraordinary is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual; while erratic is unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.

As a noun erratic is

(geology) a rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.

extraordinary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
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  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= 2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France , passage=Tony Woodcock's early try and a penalty from fourth-choice fly-half Stephen Donald were enough to see the All Blacks home in an extraordinary match that defied all pre-match predictions.}}
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  • Remarkably good.
  • Usage notes

    * Can be said of all kinds of objects including people, events, things, and terms. * The pronunciation "extrordinary" is often preferred so as to avoid confusion with "extra ordinary", which would be defined as "more ordinary than usual".

    Synonyms

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    Antonyms

    * everyday, normal, ordinary, regular, usual

    Derived terms

    * extraordinary optical transmission * extraordinary professor * extraordinary rendition

    erratic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * erratick, erraticke, erratique (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent
  • Henry has been getting erratic scores on his tests: 40% last week, but 98% this week.
  • Deviating from the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; odd.
  • erratic conduct

    Derived terms

    * erratically

    Antonyms

    * consistent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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:
  • 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.
  • Anything that has erratic characteristics.
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