unpredictable synonyms

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capricious

any way the wind blows
arbitrary
blowing hot and cold
careless
changeful
contrary
crotchety
effervescent
erratic
every which way
fanciful
fickle
fitful
flaky

chance

adventitious
at random
casual
contingent
fluky
fortuitous
fortunate
happy
inadvertent
incidental
lucky
odd
offhand
unforeseen

chancy

capricious
contingent
dicey
erratic
fluctuant
fluky
hazardous
iffy
incalculable
precarious
problematic
problematical
rocky
speculative

dicey

capricious
chancy
dangerous
difficult
erratic
fluctuant
iffy
incalculable
ticklish
tricky
uncertain
unpredictable
whimsical

doubtful

ambiguous
borderline
chancy
clouded
contingent
debatable
dicey
disreputable
doubtable
dubious
dubitable
equivocal
far-fetched
fat chance

erratic

aberrant
abnormal
anomalous
arbitrary
bizarre
capricious
changeable
desultory
devious
dicey
directionless
dubious
eccentric
fitful

fickle

arbitrary
capricious
changeable
cheating
coquettish
double-crossing
faithless
fitful
flighty
frivolous
inconstant
irresolute
lubricious
mercurial

fluctuating

alter
alternate
be undecided
blow hot and cold
ebb and flow
flutter
go up and down
hem and haw
hesitate
oscillate
rise and fall
seesaw
shift
swing

fluky

accidental
casual
chancy
coincidental
contingent
fortuitous
incalculable
incidental
lucky
odd
uncertain
variable

from left field

accidental
amazing
astonishing
chance
electrifying
extraordinary
fortuitous
impulsive
out of the blue
remarkable
shocking
startling
stunning
sudden

hanging by a thread

ambiguous
borderline
chancy
contingent
dangerous
delicate
dicey
dubious
dynamite
equivocal
hairy
hazardous
iffy
impugnable

iffy

capricious
chancy
conditional
dicey
doubtful
erratic
fluctuant
in lap of gods
incalculable
problematic
undecided
unpredictable
unsettled
up in the air

incalculable

boundless
capricious
chancy
enormous
erratic
fluctuant
iffy
immense
incomputable
inestimable
infinite
innumerable
jillion
measureless

inconstant

capricious
changeful
erratic
fickle
flickering
fluctuating
impulsive
inconsistent
intermittent
irregular
irresolute
mercurial
shifting
uncertain

random

accidental
adventitious
aimless
arbitrary
casual
contingent
designless
desultory
driftless
fluky
fortuitous
hit-or-miss
incidental
indiscriminate

touch and go

dangerous
delicate
hazardous
parlous
perilous
precarious
sensitive
shaky
touchy
tricky
uncertain
unpredictable

touchy

bad-tempered
bundle of nerves
cantankerous
captious
choleric
crabbed
cranky
cross
delicate
dicey
grouchy
grumpy
hazardous
hypersensitive

uncertain

ambiguous
ambivalent
chancy
conjectural
dubious
erratic
fitful
hanging by a thread
hazy
hesitant
iffy
incalculable
inconstant
indefinite

unforeseeable

capricious
chance
chancy
changeable
fluky
from left field
incalculable
random
uncertain
unexpected
unknowable

unreliable

capricious
deceitful
deceptive
delusive
disreputable
dubious
erroneous
fake
fallible
false
fickle
fly-by-night
furtive
hallucinatory

unstable

ambiguous
borderline
capricious
changeable
dizzy
dubious
erratic
fickle
fitful
fluctuating
giddy
inconsistent
inconstant
insecure

up for grabs

accessible
achievable
applicable
at hand
at one's disposal
attainable
come-at-able
convenient
derivable from
feasible
free
getatable
handy
obtainable

variable

capricious
changeful
fickle
fitful
flexible
fluctuating
fluid
iffy
inconstant
irregular
mercurial
mobile
mutable
protean

whimsical

amusing
arbitrary
capricious
chancy
chimerical
comical
curious
dicey
droll
eccentric
erratic
fantastic
flaky
freakish

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