Desultory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having no set plan; haphazard or random. See Synonyms at chance.
  • adj. Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected: a desultory speech.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless.
  • adj. Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject.
  • adj. Disappointing in performance or progress.
  • adj. Leaping, skipping or flitting about, generally in a random or unsteady manner.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Leaping or skipping about.
  • adj. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless.
  • adj. Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Leaping; hopping about; moving irregularly.
  • Swerving from point to point; irregularly shifting in course; devious: as, desultory movements; a desultory saunter.
  • Veering about from one thing to another; whiffling; unmethodical; irregular; disconnected: as, a desultory conversation.
  • Coming suddenly, as if by leaping into view; started at the moment; random.
  • Synonyms and Rambling, roving, unsystematic, irregular. See irregular.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another
    • Equivalent
    purposeless   
    Form
    desultorily   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unsettled    inconstant    slight    hasty    immethodical   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cursory    fruitless    aimless    intermittent    fragmentary   
     
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