Fussy vs Erratic - What's the difference?
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Anxious or particular about petty details.
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy .
Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).
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.
Fussy is a related term of erratic.
As adjectives the difference between fussy and erratic
is that fussy is anxious or particular about petty details 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.fussy
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Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* pedantic * pickyerratic
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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.