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   What does desultory mean?

   • Their desultory discourse was soon interrupted by their arrival at the cottage of Mr. Wharton. Desultory definition: lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful. See examples of DESULTORY used in a sentence.

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   What is a desultory student?

   • A desultory student skips from one subject to another without applying serious effort to any particular one. A desultory comment is a digressive one that jumps away from the topic at hand. And a desultory performance is one resulting from an implied lack of steady, focused effort.

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   What does desultorius mean?

   • Did you know? The Latin adjective desultorius was used by the ancients to refer to a circus performer (called a desultor) whose trick was to leap from horse to horse without stopping. It makes sense, then, that someone or something desultory "jumps" from one thing to another.

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   What is a synonym for desultorily?

   • Synonyms for desultorily include: aimlessly, anyhow, anyway, anywise, erratically, haphazard, haphazardly, helter-skelter, hit or miss, irregularly, randomly, willy-nilly.

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   What is a desultory Act?

   • Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm. The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn. The man continued talking. She answered him desultorily. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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   What is a desultory conversation?

   • (Desultor and desultorius, by the way, come from the Latin verb salire, meaning "to leap.") A desultory conversation leaps from one topic to another and doesn't have a distinct point or direction. A desultory student skips from one subject to another without applying serious effort to any particular one.

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   DESULTORY definition: 1. without a clear plan or purpose and showing little effort or interest: 2. without a clear plan…. Learn more.

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     DESULTORY meaning: 1. without a clear plan or purpose and...

   • Desultory in Simplified Chinese

     DESULTORY translate: 漫无目的的，随意的；无计划的. Learn more in the...

   • Znaczenie Desultory, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     DESULTORY definicja: 1. without a clear plan or purpose and...

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     DESULTORY translate: 漫無目的的，隨意的；無計劃的. Learn more in the...

   • Desuetude

     DESUETUDE definition: 1. the principle that laws can stop...

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   A desultory conversation leaps from one topic to another and doesn't have a distinct point or direction. A desultory student skips from one subject to another without applying serious effort to any particular one. A desultory comment is a digressive one that jumps away from the topic at hand.

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   Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm. [ formal ] The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.

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   Desultory definition: lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful. See examples of DESULTORY used in a sentence.

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   adjective. 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”. synonyms: purposeless. not evidencing any purpose or goal.

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   desultory. (ˈdɛsəltərɪ; -trɪ) adj. 1. passing or jumping from one thing to another, esp in a fitful way; unmethodical; disconnected. 2. occurring in a random or incidental way; haphazard: a desultory thought.

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   Desultory definition: Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected.