desultory as an adjective: - 1
desultory
adjective
1 desultory
Marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another.
Roget 70:
discontinuous,
unsuccessive†,
broken,
interrupted,
dicousu [Fr.];
disconnected,
unconnected;
discrete,
disjunctive;
fitful
etc.
(irregular)
139;
spasmodic,
desultory;
intermitting,
occasional
etc.
v.,
intermittent;
alternate;
recurrent
etc.
(periodic)
138.
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Roget 81:
polymorphous,
multiform,
multifold,
multifarious,
multigenerous†,
multiplex;
heterogeneous,
diversified,
dissimilar,
various,
varied,
variform†;
manifold,
many-sided;
variegated,
motley,
mosaic;
epicene,
indiscriminate,
desultory,
irregular;
mixed,
different,
assorted,
mingled,
odd,
diverse,
divers;
all manner of,
of every description,
of all sorts and kinds,
et hoc genus omne [Lat.];
and what not;?
de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis [Lat.].
jumbled,
confused,
mixed up,
discordant;
inharmonious,
unmatched,
unrelated,
nonuniform.
omniform†,
omnigenous†,
omnifarious†;
protean
(form)
240.
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Roget 139:
irregular,
uncertain,
unpunctual,
capricious,
desultory,
fitful,
flickering;
rambling,
rhapsodical;
spasmodic;
immethodical†,
unmethodical,
variable.
Roget 149:
changeable,
changeful;
changing
etc.
140;
mutable,
variable,
checkered,
ever changing;
protean,
proteiform†;
versatile.
unstaid†,
inconstant;
unsteady,
unstable,
unfixed,
unsettled;
fluctuating
etc.
v.;
restless;
agitated
etc.
315;
erratic,
fickle;
irresolute
etc.
605;
capricious
etc.
608;
touch and go;
inconsonant,
fitful,
spasmodic;
vibratory;
vagrant,
wayward;
desultory;
afloat;
alternating;
alterable,
plastic,
mobile;
transient
etc.
111;
wavering.
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Roget 279:
deviating
etc.
v.;
aberrant,
errant;
excursive,
discursive;
devious,
desultory,
loose;
rambling;
stray,
erratic,
vagrant,
undirected,
circuitous,
indirect,
zigzag;
crab-like.
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Roget 315:
shaking
etc.
v.;
agitated tremulous;
desultory,
subsultory†;
saltatoric†;
quasative†;
shambling;
giddy-paced,
saltatory†,
convulsive,
unquiet,
restless,
all of a twitter.
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Roget 59:
disorderly,
orderless;
out of order,
out of place,
out of gear;
irregular,
desultory;
anomalous
etc.
(unconformable)
83;
acephalous†,
deranged;
aimless;
disorganized;
straggling;
unmethodical,
immethodical†;
unsymmetric†,
unsystematic;
untidy,
slovenly;
dislocated;
out of sorts;
promiscuous,
indiscriminate;
chaotic,
anarchical;
unarranged
etc.
(arrange)
etc.
60;
confused;
deranged
etc.
61;
topsy-turvy
etc.
(inverted)
218;
shapeless
etc.
241;
disjointed,
out of joint.
troublous†;
riotous
etc.
(violent)
173.
complex
etc.
59.1.
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