Word Meanings - DESULTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

desilire, desultum, to leap down; de + salire to leap. See 1. Leaping or skipping about. I shot at it , but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White. 2. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or

Additional info about word: DESULTORY

desilire, desultum, to leap down; de + salire to leap. See 1. Leaping or skipping about. I shot at it , but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White. 2. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. He knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay. 3. Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark. Syn. -- Rambling; roving; immethodical; discursive; inconstant; unsettled; cursory; slight; hasty; loose.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESULTORY)

• Aberrant
• Erratic
• devious
• divergent
• incontinuous
• desultory
• disconnected
• wandering
• idiotic
• inconsistent
• inconsecutive
• abnormal
• exceptional
• Cursory
• Rapid
• hasty
• careless
• superficial
• slight
• summary
• Desultory
• aberrant
• flighty
• changeful
• capricious
• Fitful
• Capricious
• fickle
• unstable
• restless
• inconstant
• mutable
• impulsive
• fanciful
• unequal
• irregular

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESULTORY)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to DESULTORY)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• MUTABLE
  1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• IMPULSIVELY
  In an impulsive manner.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.