characterized or caused by vagaries; irregular or erratic
Derived forms
vagariously (vaˈgariously)
adverb
vagarious in American English
(vəˈgɛriəs; vəˈgæriəs)
adjective
1.
full of or characterized by vagaries; capricious
2.
wandering; roaming
vagarious in American English
(vəˈɡɛəriəs)
adjective
1.
characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious
a vagarious foreign policy
2.
roving; wandering
vagarious artists
Derived forms
vagariously
adverb
Word origin
[1790–1800; vagary + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1790–1800. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: infiltration, methodology, modular, peanut, silhouette-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous)