Desultory
Antonyms of DESULTORY
- established, nonrandom, thoughtful, continuous, set, direct, planned, methodical, consistent, undeviating, coherent, organized, systematized, orchestrated, conscious, fixed, even, ordered, constant, arranged, regular, straightforward, deliberate, aware, systematic, purposeful, steady, willful, orderly, logical, focused, stable.
Synonyms of DESULTORY
- on-again-off-again, idle, good, planetary, unhelpful, broken, fits and starts, dissimilar, fluctuating, discursively, risky, wholesale, ineffective, mess, incongruity, disordered, blase, excursive, badly worn, Depthless, asymmetric, dream, roving, shaky, Deviating, freakish, past, straggling, down at the heel, impulsive, chance, spluttering, inconstant, unfaithworthy, aberrative, wanton, discontinuous, wavy, wavery, turning, variable, Inconsonant, whimsical, Unfrequent, infirm, good-for-nothing, unpressed, Rhapsodical, impractical, formless, maundering, disarticulated, world-weary, unenthusiastic, errant, out of place, haphazard, acephalous, manifold, not uniform, alternating, dispersed, rough, show, nonuniform, nugatory, undirected, odd, Fluctuant, deviant, precarious, wobbly, unplanned, hopeless, unreliable, nonsensicality, agitated, aberrant, provisional, adrift, Subsultory, unconformable, all over the map, folly, tip of the iceberg, desultory, flickery, indifferent, nothing, pants, mobile, deviative, divers, lost, job, flaccid, dizzy, lurching, unsound, pointless, purposelessly, undisciplined, irresponsible, unstable as water, Flitting, tentative, Desultorily, ticklish, moody, unavailing, unaccountable, blind alley, wavering, vain, uneven, unsorted, futile, catchy, spot, unpredictable, Vicissitudinary, aimless, dud, sporadic, eye candy, giddy, ornamental, insubstantial, catch-as-catch-can, Unpurposed, assorted, meandering, rambling, Unstaid, untrustworthy, staggering, volatile, rigmarole, crab-like, unordered, restless, mug, planless, Unarranged, loose, fragmentary, spotty, labyrinthine, chase, occasional, hit-or-miss, absurdity, unsubstantial, bits-and-pieces, wishy-washy, inconsistent, unregular, periodic, out-of-the-way, ragged, flickering, outlive, randomly, unguided, dead loss, apathetic, spasmic, use, chaotic, cursory, serpentine, mosaic, incohesive, transient, casual, door, study at random, many-sided, disorganized, changeful, inefficient, variform, nonsystematic, twisting, Systemless, out of gear, fed up, quixotic, uncommitted, one-dimensional, unfavourable, Unsteadfast, fluttering, Multigenerous, pimply, irregular, unsure, tale, winding, disorderly, unquiet, temporary, heterogeneous, hazardous, double-talk, departing, wandering, capriciously, down at heel, Giddy-paced, disjunct, shifting, of every description, Unjoined, straggly, claptrap, ineffectual, uncontrolled, Imperceptive, Unsolid, fluttery, discursive, varied, Driftless, deranged, vague, jerky, undiscriminating, Intermitting, shuffling, convulsive, unorganized, cobblers, flabby, Unsuccessive, insecure, shuffle, fruitless, multifarious, changeable, procedure, herky-jerky, hogwash, wobbling, indecisive, out of order, smattery, unpunctual, Multifold, romantic, shambling, alterable, unwieldy, half-assed, vacillating, nonsense, dj, purposeless, ununiform, flighty, and what not, Heteroclite, vagrant, perilous, pathetic, uninspired, epicene, wayward, different, digressionary, unsystematic, circuitous, unrhythmical, by the way, blue, shapeless, on the surface, negate, variegated, erratically, veering, discrete, loosely, inexpedient, scraggiest, semioccasional, unsettled, vainly, aimlessly, performance, bird, patchy, irresolute, anomalous, unequal, feeble, fickle, inchoate, inordinately, random, disjunctive, fast and loose, uncertain, Flickeringly, Objectless, Deviatory, nonsymmetrical, halting, unclassified, any old way, moon around, spastic, worthless, indirect, water, moon, directionless, afloat, multiplex, baloney, Immethodical, spineless, unconsidered, scatterbrained, Vagarious, bosh, sputtery, unsteady, disproportionate, up and down, expendable, unstable, shifty, longwinded, dancing, fitfully, spasmodic, irregularly, jargon, spurtive, incoherent, shoaler, recurrent, mercurial, zigzag, self-defeating, motley, episodic, deckchair, scrappy, spasmodically, diffuse, diversified, headless, multiform, treacherous, deviously, Hell, frivolous, pitiful, unrealistic, swerving, alternate, disconnected, superficially, indiscriminately, plastic, shaking, snatchy, tripe, misshapen, eccentric, in rags, superficial, Designless, Purportless, fool's errand, flicky, vibratory, diverse, inane, unmetrical, dangerous, indiscriminate, airy-fairy, listless, purpose, unsymmetrical, Digressional, capricious, mutable, choppy, fitful, hocus-pocus, mixed, various, snaky, empty, intermittent, in tatters, Careening, bits and pieces, Mingled, amorphous, impetuous, scraggy, erratic, without purpose, badly dressed, discontinuously, miscellaneous, worse for wear, unconnected, Vicissitudinous, senseless, poorly made, touch and go, Saltatory, useless, digressive, ungraded, otiose, deviable, disconnectedly, devious, gratuitous, meaningless, polymorphous, abrupt, undependable, unfixed, mooch, unselective, motiveless, interrupted, sputtering, goalless, slippery, all manner of, unmethodical, unaimed, unrestrained, touch-and-go, eyewash, Spasmatic, guttering, Orderless, promiscuous, stray, slapdash, mazy, window dressing, bored, not habitual.
Examples of usage:
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That is, to the idea of a practical mind, desultory voice study. "Seed Thoughts for Singers" by Frank Herbert Tubbs
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Desultory practice is avoided. "Seed Thoughts for Singers" by Frank Herbert Tubbs
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Judging the matter fairly next morning, Mr Linton and the officers came to the conclusion, after a careful inspection, that though it would have been necessary for the occupants of the residency to have fled to the little fort, half- a- dozen such desultory attacks would have done the latter no real harm. "Middy and Ensign" by G. Manville Fenn
