desultory 音標拼音: [d'ɛsəlt
, ɔri]
a . 散漫的,斷斷續續的,不連貫的
散漫的,斷斷續續的,不連貫的
desultory adj 1 :
marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose ;
jumping from one thing to another ; "
desultory thoughts ";
"
the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties "
Desultory \
Des "
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to *
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a . [
L .
desultorius ,
fr .
desultor a leaper ,
fr .
desilire ,
desultum ,
to leap down ;
de salire to leap .
See {
Saltation }.]
1 .
Leaping or skipping about . [
Obs .]
[
1913 Webster ]
I shot at it [
a bird ],
but it was so desultory that I missed my aim . --
Gilbert White .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Jumping ,
or passing ,
from one thing or subject to another ,
without order or rational connection ;
without logical sequence ;
disconnected ;
immethodical ;
aimless ;
as ,
desultory minds . --
Atterbury .
[
1913 Webster ]
He [
Goldsmith ]
knew nothing accurately ;
his reading had been desultory . --
Macaulay .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Out of course ;
by the way ;
as a digression ;
not connected with the subject ;
as ,
a desultory remark .
Syn :
Rambling ;
roving ;
immethodical ;
discursive ;
inconstant ;
unsettled ;
cursory ;
slight ;
hasty ;
loose .
[
1913 Webster ]
211 Moby Thesaurus words for "
desultory ":
aberrant ,
aberrative ,
adrift ,
afloat ,
aimless ,
alternating ,
amorphous ,
broken ,
by the way ,
capricious ,
careening ,
casual ,
catchy ,
changeable ,
changeful ,
chaotic ,
choppy ,
circuitous ,
dancing ,
dangerous ,
departing ,
designless ,
deviable ,
deviant ,
deviating ,
deviative ,
deviatory ,
devious ,
digressive ,
disarticulated ,
disconnected ,
discontinuous ,
discursive ,
disjunct ,
disordered ,
disorderly ,
disorganized ,
dispersed ,
disproportionate ,
dizzy ,
eccentric ,
episodic ,
errant ,
erratic ,
excursive ,
fast and loose ,
fickle ,
fitful ,
flickering ,
flickery ,
flicky ,
flighty ,
flitting ,
fluctuating ,
fluttering ,
fluttery ,
formless ,
freakish ,
frivolous ,
giddy ,
gratuitous ,
guttering ,
halting ,
haphazard ,
hazardous ,
herky -
jerky ,
heteroclite ,
hit -
or -
miss ,
immethodical ,
impetuous ,
impulsive ,
inchoate ,
incoherent ,
inconsistent ,
inconstant ,
indecisive ,
indirect ,
indiscriminate ,
infirm ,
insecure ,
insubstantial ,
intermittent ,
intermitting ,
irregular ,
irresolute ,
irresponsible ,
jerky ,
labyrinthine ,
loose ,
lurching ,
maundering ,
mazy ,
meandering ,
meaningless ,
mercurial ,
misshapen ,
moody ,
nonsymmetrical ,
nonsystematic ,
nonuniform ,
on -
again -
off -
again ,
orderless ,
out -
of -
the -
way ,
patchy ,
perilous ,
planetary ,
planless ,
precarious ,
promiscuous ,
provisional ,
purposeless ,
rambling ,
random ,
restless ,
risky ,
rough ,
roving ,
scatterbrained ,
scrappy ,
senseless ,
serpentine ,
shaky ,
shapeless ,
shifting ,
shifty ,
shuffling ,
slippery ,
snaky ,
snatchy ,
spasmatic ,
spasmic ,
spasmodic ,
spastic ,
spineless ,
spluttering ,
sporadic ,
spotty ,
sputtering ,
sputtery ,
staggering ,
straggling ,
straggly ,
stray ,
swerving ,
systemless ,
temporary ,
tentative ,
ticklish ,
treacherous ,
turning ,
twisting ,
unaccountable ,
unarranged ,
uncertain ,
unclassified ,
unconsidered ,
uncontrolled ,
undependable ,
undirected ,
undisciplined ,
unequal ,
uneven ,
unfaithworthy ,
unfixed ,
ungraded ,
unjoined ,
unmethodical ,
unmetrical ,
unordered ,
unorganized ,
unplanned ,
unpredictable ,
unregular ,
unreliable ,
unrestrained ,
unrhythmical ,
unsettled ,
unsolid ,
unsorted ,
unsound ,
unstable ,
unstable as water ,
unstaid ,
unsteadfast ,
unsteady ,
unsubstantial ,
unsure ,
unsymmetrical ,
unsystematic ,
untrustworthy ,
ununiform ,
vacillating ,
vagrant ,
vague ,
variable ,
veering ,
vicissitudinary ,
vicissitudinous ,
volatile ,
wandering ,
wanton ,
wavering ,
wavery ,
wavy ,
wayward ,
whimsical ,
winding ,
wishy -
washy ,
wobbling ,
wobbly ,
zigzag
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