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
- fluctuating, veering, expendable, zigzag, unstable, motley, unfavourable, chance, mutable, unenthusiastic, senseless, indirect, incohesive, past, nonuniform, departing, semioccasional, Mingled, Designless, plastic, adrift, by the way, inexpedient, job, all over the map, vagrant, lurching, Digressional, uncontrolled, spasmic, unaccountable, vainly, fits and starts, deviative, Fluctuant, halting, erratically, fitful, guttering, indecisive, Deviating, badly worn, disproportionate, bits-and-pieces, agitated, inordinately, shuffle, jerky, Imperceptive, many-sided, disorderly, Flitting, choppy, different, spasmodic, hogwash, chaotic, double-talk, promiscuous, insecure, snatchy, cursory, nonsymmetrical, dream, planned, spineless, empty, bored, shapeless, undependable, pimply, frivolous, formless, freakish, nugatory, Objectless, motiveless, convulsive, heterogeneous, Deviatory, chase, broken, staggering, digressionary, feeble, disjunctive, unmethodical, deckchair, purposelessly, mug, multiform, intermittent, unsystematic, restless, Vicissitudinous, discontinuous, Multigenerous, unregular, fool's errand, window dressing, dud, purpose, directionless, flaccid, listless, stray, unsorted, vibratory, Subsultory, uneven, sporadic, Unjoined, pointless, on-again-off-again, hit-or-miss, loose, roving, unsound, mazy, epicene, anomalous, touch and go, alternating, bird, recurrent, Depthless, cobblers, diverse, provisional, miscellaneous, inefficient, whimsical, unpunctual, wavery, planless, unrealistic, dead loss, Multifold, ineffective, wanton, wandering, eyewash, of every description, scrappy, perilous, Driftless, lost, snaky, impractical, discursively, vague, absurdity, patchy, flickering, quixotic, Unstaid, dj, fed up, hocus-pocus, in rags, without purpose, risky, undisciplined, spastic, scraggy, capriciously, moon, useless, touch-and-go, acephalous, self-defeating, variable, unsteady, wishy-washy, swerving, unsure, airy-fairy, apathetic, spot, mess, fluttery, wobbly, spasmodically, romantic, spurtive, flickery, rigmarole, amorphous, good, flicky, good-for-nothing, flabby, down at heel, insubstantial, Unsteadfast, ragged, excursive, nonsensicality, unwieldy, unselective, unconsidered, superficial, scraggiest, twisting, untrustworthy, unfaithworthy, tripe, giddy, dizzy, wavy, Giddy-paced, disordered, bits and pieces, shuffling, unpredictable, varied, irregularly, spluttering, study at random, procedure, nonsystematic, labyrinthine, inconstant, fragmentary, slippery, meaningless, unordered, blase, disconnected, incoherent, wholesale, half-assed, up and down, one-dimensional, irregular, badly dressed, Spasmatic, impetuous, irresponsible, shoaler, loosely, digressive, shaking, variegated, worthless, straggly, errant, nothing, discrete, infirm, Unarranged, multiplex, headless, divers, discontinuously, eccentric, indiscriminate, transient, capricious, ticklish, circuitous, meandering, undirected, fitfully, haphazard, Desultorily, not uniform, temporary, use, aberrative, vacillating, hazardous, otiose, sputtering, aimless, gratuitous, unsubstantial, pitiful, Intermitting, poorly made, uninspired, all manner of, Unfrequent, unpressed, out of gear, afloat, claptrap, indifferent, uncommitted, Careening, unsettled, ungraded, out of order, herky-jerky, misshapen, erratic, alterable, mosaic, deviable, and what not, in tatters, Purportless, precarious, dancing, mobile, Heteroclite, longwinded, planetary, unstable as water, Unsolid, water, various, tentative, aberrant, unaimed, Vagarious, unconnected, catch-as-catch-can, moody, disjunct, Rhapsodical, tip of the iceberg, abrupt, blue, variform, inconsistent, aimlessly, unorganized, discursive, folly, unclassified, nonsense, shambling, inane, fruitless, eye candy, desultory, out of place, wayward, uncertain, pants, serpentine, on the surface, performance, wavering, unconformable, turning, dispersed, shifting, smattery, undiscriminating, Unsuccessive, periodic, indiscriminately, spotty, world-weary, moon around, diversified, unequal, Flickeringly, deranged, unavailing, interrupted, unmetrical, show, random, manifold, unrestrained, slapdash, shifty, Orderless, rough, dangerous, outlive, Saltatory, door, vain, occasional, ineffectual, crab-like, unguided, polymorphous, mercurial, Inconsonant, treacherous, straggling, futile, asymmetric, any old way, scatterbrained, Hell, unfixed, Vicissitudinary, tale, winding, ornamental, changeable, changeful, inchoate, purposeless, volatile, negate, assorted, out-of-the-way, devious, disarticulated, episodic, goalless, shaky, maundering, randomly, incongruity, fast and loose, odd, not habitual, unhelpful, unrhythmical, mooch, casual, disorganized, catchy, unsymmetrical, jargon, down at the heel, alternate, mixed, fickle, ununiform, pathetic, deviously, dissimilar, blind alley, hopeless, flighty, Unpurposed, sputtery, multifarious, baloney, Systemless, deviant, rambling, bosh, fluttering, idle, disconnectedly, Immethodical, unplanned, diffuse, worse for wear, wobbling, superficially, unquiet, unreliable, impulsive, irresolute.
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
