Usually means: Lacking plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. desultory: Merriam-Webster
  2. desultory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desultory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desultory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desultory: Vocabulary.com
  6. Desultory, desultory: Wordnik
  7. desultory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. desultory: Wiktionary
  9. desultory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. desultory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. desultory: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. desultory: Dictionary.com
  13. desultory: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Desultory (band), Desultory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Desultory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. desultory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. desultory: Rhymezone
  18. Desultory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. desultory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. desultory: FreeDictionary.org
  21. desultory: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. desultory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. desultory: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Desultory: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. desultory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desultory: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. desultory, desultory: A Word A Day
  2. desultory: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence.
▸ adjective:  Out of course; by the way; not connected with the subject.
▸ adjective:  Disappointing in performance or progress.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Leaping, skipping or flitting about, generally in a random or unsteady manner.

Similar:
purposeless, abrupt, orderless, cursory, indirected, directionless, methodless, desultorious, reasonless, mindless, more...

Opposite:
systematic, methodical, organized, focused, structured

Types:
apathetic, indifferent, nonchalant, lackadaisical, uninterested, more...

Adjectives:
few, best, little, first, own, long, mere, vague, same

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Similar:
purposeless, abrupt, orderless, cursory, indirected, directionless, methodless, desultorious, reasonless, mindless, more...

Opposite:
systematic, methodical, organized, focused, structured

Types:
apathetic, indifferent, nonchalant, lackadaisical, uninterested, more...

Adjectives:
few, best, little, first, own, long, mere, vague, same

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     olive,     mauve, more...



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