Tuesday word: Desultory
Tuesday, Nov. 01, 2022
Desultory (adjective)
desultory [ des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]
adjective
1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
OTHER WORDS FROM DESULTORY
des·ul·to·ri·ly, adverb
des·ul·to·ri·ness, noun
WORDS RELATED TO DESULTORY
aimless, chaotic, erratic, haphazard, chance, deviating, orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic
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Synonyms
1. See haphazard.
ORIGIN: 1575-85; < Latin desultorius pertaining to a desultor (a circus rider who jumps from one horse to another), equivalent to desul-, variant stem of desilire to jump down (de-de- + -silire, combining form of salire to leap) + -torius-tory
HOW TO USE DESULTORY IN A SENTENCE
The Americans and their allies are carrying out a desultory air campaign in Syria that appears focused on support for the Kurds.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR OBAMA ON SYRIA|JAMIE DETTMER|OCTOBER 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yammara has been sleeping in desultory fashion with a student, Aura, who then turns up pregnant and moves in with him.
HAUNTED BY THE COCA LEAF IN ‘THE SOUND OF THINGS FALLING’|SUSAN STRAIGHT|JULY 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His closing argument was a “desultory mess,” so bad that he lost the case.
ERROL MORRIS’S “A WILDERNESS OF ERROR” REVISITS JEFFREY MACDONALD CASE|RAYMOND BONNER|AUGUST 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Most of that is the desultory ticky-tacky kind that litters the right side of people's Facebook profiles.
FACEBOOK'S DILEMMA: INVADE PRIVACY OR GO BUST|DAVID FRUM|MAY 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Desultory (adjective)
desultory [ des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]
adjective
1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
OTHER WORDS FROM DESULTORY
des·ul·to·ri·ly, adverb
des·ul·to·ri·ness, noun
WORDS RELATED TO DESULTORY
aimless, chaotic, erratic, haphazard, chance, deviating, orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic
See synonyms for desultory on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
1. See haphazard.
ORIGIN: 1575-85; < Latin desultorius pertaining to a desultor (a circus rider who jumps from one horse to another), equivalent to desul-, variant stem of desilire to jump down (de-de- + -silire, combining form of salire to leap) + -torius-tory
HOW TO USE DESULTORY IN A SENTENCE
The Americans and their allies are carrying out a desultory air campaign in Syria that appears focused on support for the Kurds.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR OBAMA ON SYRIA|JAMIE DETTMER|OCTOBER 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yammara has been sleeping in desultory fashion with a student, Aura, who then turns up pregnant and moves in with him.
HAUNTED BY THE COCA LEAF IN ‘THE SOUND OF THINGS FALLING’|SUSAN STRAIGHT|JULY 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His closing argument was a “desultory mess,” so bad that he lost the case.
ERROL MORRIS’S “A WILDERNESS OF ERROR” REVISITS JEFFREY MACDONALD CASE|RAYMOND BONNER|AUGUST 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Most of that is the desultory ticky-tacky kind that litters the right side of people's Facebook profiles.
FACEBOOK'S DILEMMA: INVADE PRIVACY OR GO BUST|DAVID FRUM|MAY 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST