desultory
21desultory — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, aberrative, adrift, afloat, aimless, alternating, amorphous, broken, by the way, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, changeable, changeful, chaotic, choppy, circuitous, dancing, dangerous, departing,… …
22desultory — des|ul|to|ry [ desl,tɔri ] adjective FORMAL showing that you have no plan or enthusiasm for what you are doing …
23desultory — [16] Latin dēsultor designated a circus trick rider who jumped from the back of one horse to another while they were galloping along (it was a derivative of dēsilīre, a compound verb formed from dē ‘down’ and salīre ‘jump’, source of or related… …
24desultory — des·ul·to·ry || desltÉ™rɪ adj. aimless, random; unmethodical, lacking order; going from one thing to another; sluggish; rambling; digressive …
25desultory — [ dɛs(ə)lt(ə)ri, z ] adjective lacking purpose or enthusiasm. Derivatives desultorily adverb desultoriness noun Origin C16 (lit. skipping about ): from L. desultorius superficial (lit. relating to a vaulter ), from desultor vaulter , from the… …
26desultory — a. Immethodical, unconnected, unsystematic, irregular, fitful, capricious, rambling, wandering, roving, discursive, cursory, slight, by fits and starts …
27desultory — adj inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, chaotic, haphazard; orderless, disorderly, unmethodical, unsystematic; changeable, capricious, shifting; unconnected, disconnected, random; unsteady, erratic, spasmodic, fitful; discursive, digressive,… …
28desultory — des·ul·to·ry …
29desultory — UK [ˈdes(ə)lt(ə)rɪ] / US [ˈdes(ə)lˌtɔrɪ] adjective formal showing that you have no plan or enthusiasm for what you are doing …
30desultory — a. aimless; lacking method or application; digressive …
