vagarious

[vuh-gair-ee-uhs]

adjective

1. characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious.

   a vagarious foreign policy.

2. roving; wandering.

   vagarious artists.

vagarious

/ vəˈɡɛərɪəs /

adjective

1. rare,  characterized or caused by vagaries; irregular or erratic

Other Word Forms

• vagariously adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of vagarious¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; vagary + -ous

Example Sentences

It is a troubling state of affairs indeed if the vagarious interests of one federal prosecutor, acting outside of public view, can determine so much about an individual’s future.

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There are certain stars that have such irregular, uncertain, vagarious ways that they were called vagabonds, or planets, by the early astronomers.

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As a rule, however, the voices seemed vagarious, and he attached no importance to them, except as phenomena which interested him slightly.

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She had a slow, vagarious notion that all of the cots were tilted, so that they appeared each on a cross, these mothers.

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Related Words

• abnormal 
• arbitrary 
• bizarre 
• capricious 
• eccentric 
• inconsistent 
• irregular 
• mercurial 
• uncertain 
• unreliable 
• unstable 
• unusual 
• volatile 
• wayward 
• weird 
• whimsical