What is another word for desultory?
725 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ diːsˈʌltəɹˌi], [ diːsˈʌltəɹˌi], [ d_iː_s_ˈʌ_l_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]Table of Contents
Similar words for desultory:- aimless (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- cursory (adjective)
- discontinuous (adjective)
- erratic (adjective)
- excursive (adjective)
- fitful (adjective)
- haphazard (adjective)
- hasty (adjective)
- indiscriminate (adjective)
- irregular (adjective)
- occasional (adjective)
- one-dimensional (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- purposeless (adjective)
- ragged (adjective)
- rambling (adjective)
- roving (adjective)
- spasmodic (adjective)
- sporadic (adjective)
- spotty (adjective)
- superficial (adjective)
- touch-and-go (adjective)
- erratic (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Desultory:
adj.
•aimless (adjective)- more unguided,
- in-decisive,
- most bits-and-pieces,
- un availing,
- un-planned,
- more undirected,
- most objectless,
- most directionless,
- most vagrant,
- un-predictable,
- more goalless,
- fits starts,
- most drifting,
- most bits and pieces,
- un-availing,
- most goalless,
- most undirected,
- un-directed,
- most unguided,
- un directed,
- in decisive,
- un planned,
- un-guided,
- more drifting,
- more bits and pieces,
- un guided,
- more directionless,
- more bits-and-pieces,
- more objectless,
- un predictable,
- more vagrant.
- half baked,
- most half assed,
- un critical,
- half assed,
- most depthless,
- halfbaked,
- more half-assed,
- most half-assed,
- hit miss,
- un-critical,
- more halfassed,
- shallower,
- most halfassed,
- halfassed,
- more depthless,
- more half assed.
- dis ordered,
- in-cohesive,
- dis-ordered,
- in coherent,
- dis-jointed,
- un connected,
- more incohesive,
- in-choate,
- dis-connected,
- dis continuous,
- in choate,
- most incohesive,
- un-connected,
- in cohesive,
- un-organized,
- dis connected,
- in-coherent,
- dis jointed,
- dis-continuous,
- un organized.
- un-stable,
- in-constant,
- in-calculable,
- un stable,
- more oddball,
- un-natural,
- iffy,
- more vagarious,
- un reliable,
- in constant,
- most shifting,
- un-usual,
- most fluctuant,
- more shifting,
- un stabler,
- most vagarious,
- in calculable,
- un-stabler,
- un-stablest,
- more fluctuant,
- in-consistent,
- un stablest,
- un-reliable,
- un usual,
- in consistent.
- most fluctuating,
- herkyjerky,
- most herky jerky,
- bits pieces,
- most herkyjerky,
- re-current,
- more herky-jerky,
- most on-again-off-again,
- most spastic,
- more spastic,
- more fluctuating,
- more herkyjerky,
- herky jerky,
- most herky-jerky,
- more on-again-off-again,
- more on again off again,
- re current,
- more herky jerky,
- most on again off again.
- dis orderly,
- dis organized,
- un-expected,
- dis-organized,
- dis-orderly,
- most unmethodical,
- most designless,
- un methodical,
- more unmethodical,
- un-systematic,
- un-concerned,
- devil may care,
- un thinking,
- helter skelter,
- un-conscious,
- more designless,
- Willy nilly,
- un premeditated,
- de-signless,
- un concerned,
- flukest,
- un-thinking,
- un expected,
- un-considered,
- un-coordinated,
- un-premeditated,
- un considered,
- un coordinated,
- un-methodical,
- all over map,
- un conscious,
- fluker,
- willynilly,
- helterskelter,
- de signless,
- un systematic,
- unconscious.
- more unfrequent,
- un-common,
- most unfrequent,
- un common,
- un frequent,
- more seldom,
- un commoner,
- few,
- most seldom,
- un-frequent,
- un-commoner,
- off on,
- un commonest.
- any old way,
- spotty,
- smattery,
- on-again-off-again,
- down at the heel,
- scraggiest,
- Depthless,
- fits and starts,
- Driftless,
- tip of the iceberg,
- Unpurposed,
- badly dressed,
- not uniform,
- discontinuous,
- incohesive,
- ragged,
- Designless,
- Fluctuant,
- unhelpful,
- longwinded,
- scraggy,
- spastic,
- in rags,
- roving,
- motiveless,
- on the surface,
- Objectless,
- semioccasional,
- all over the map,
- in tatters,
- goalless,
- unaimed,
- down at heel,
- random,
- haphazard,
- herky-jerky,
- cursory,
- sporadic,
- not habitual,
- superficial,
- purposeless,
- undirected,
- directionless,
- aimless,
- one-dimensional,
- bits and pieces,
- shoaler,
- bits-and-pieces,
- unmethodical,
- indiscriminate,
- badly worn,
- Unfrequent,
- erratic,
- Vagarious,
- fitful,
- poorly made,
- worse for wear,
- pimply,
- unguided,
- Purportless,
- rambling,
- unpressed,
- spasmodic,
- half-assed.
- more motiveless,
- most floundering,
- un helpful,
- more good for nothing,
- more floundering,
- more unhelpful,
- un necessary,
- un-necessary,
- uncalled for,
- more unpurposed,
- most purportless,
- un-profitable,
- most unpurposed,
- most good-for-nothing,
- un-helpful,
- more good-for-nothing,
- un profitable,
- un-purposed,
- more purportless,
- most motiveless,
- most good for nothing,
- good for nothing,
- un purposed,
- most unhelpful.
- in holes,
- more unpressed,
- down heel,
- most battered,
- full holes,
- more fragmented,
- more rent,
- more frazzled,
- un-kempter,
- most frazzled,
- most fragmented,
- most patched,
- more shredded,
- un pressed,
- un-pressed,
- down the heel,
- most rent,
- more frayed,
- more battered,
- most frayed,
- most unpressed,
- scraggier,
- un-finished,
- un kempter,
- more patched,
- un-kemptest,
- most shredded,
- un-kempt,
- un kempt,
- full of holes,
- un finished,
- un kemptest,
- motheaten.
- sur-face,
- more quick-fix,
- in-attentive,
- on surface,
- more smattery,
- skindeep,
- nodding,
- most quick fix,
- most warped,
- quick-fix,
- most quickfix,
- tip the iceberg,
- most quick-fix,
- more warped,
- quickfix,
- most smattery,
- flasher,
- tip iceberg,
- tip of iceberg,
- more quickfix,
- more quick fix,
- shoalest,
- sur face,
- skin deep,
- flashest.
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- purpose.
- feeble,
- good-for-nothing,
- hit-or-miss,
- pants,
- indirect,
- treacherous,
- patchy,
- unsound,
- aberrative,
- pathetic,
- shapeless,
- scatterbrained,
- headless,
- alternating,
- Careening,
- Vicissitudinous,
- snatchy,
- unplanned,
- shuffling,
- disproportionate,
- mug,
- planetary,
- disordered,
- shifting,
- moody,
- variable,
- dead loss,
- fluttery,
- unstable,
- wayward,
- idle,
- mercurial,
- dizzy,
- insubstantial,
- serpentine,
- restless,
- giddy,
- Hell,
- misshapen,
- irresponsible,
- guttering,
- unrhythmical,
- useless,
- unwieldy,
- unrestrained,
- unsystematic,
- halting,
- deviant,
- straggling,
- unfavourable,
- dispersed,
- nothing,
- changeful,
- romantic,
- hopeless,
- turning,
- snaky,
- unavailing,
- otiose,
- outlive,
- unaccountable,
- sputtering,
- adrift,
- gratuitous,
- unstable as water,
- bird,
- nonuniform,
- unsorted,
- ungraded,
- unconsidered,
- flighty,
- inefficient,
- spineless,
- whimsical,
- Spasmatic,
- eccentric,
- shifty,
- swerving,
- discursive,
- wishy-washy,
- hazardous,
- planless,
- vainly,
- ticklish,
- use,
- worthless,
- episodic,
- meaningless,
- mess,
- expendable,
- digressive,
- infirm,
- deviative,
- slippery,
- uncontrolled,
- unpredictable,
- provisional,
- Deviatory,
- maundering,
- eye candy,
- ununiform,
- vagrant,
- devious,
- fruitless,
- unsymmetrical,
- impetuous,
- pointless,
- nugatory,
- scrappy,
- futile,
- jerky,
- job,
- perilous,
- ineffectual,
- untrustworthy,
- changeable,
- aberrant,
- Immethodical,
- spluttering,
- uneven,
- errant,
- moon,
- unsure,
- labyrinthine,
- mooch,
- unsettled,
- wobbly,
- inchoate,
- deckchair,
- zigzag,
- Intermitting,
- spasmic,
- inexpedient,
- shuffle,
- straggly,
- Unarranged,
- airy-fairy,
- unfixed,
- freakish,
- self-defeating,
- frivolous,
- fast and loose,
- wanton,
- senseless,
- temporary,
- water,
- chaotic,
- fluttering,
- fluctuating,
- irregular,
- Systemless,
- tentative,
- wandering,
- dream,
- loose,
- disjunct,
- by the way,
- mazy,
- incoherent,
- pitiful,
- unregular,
- nonsymmetrical,
- wavery,
- empty,
- staggering,
- broken,
- departing,
- lost,
- circuitous,
- unrealistic,
- stray,
- rough,
- flaccid,
- wavy,
- Heteroclite,
- unorganized,
- deviable,
- Unstaid,
- twisting,
- fool's errand,
- dangerous,
- flickering,
- intermittent,
- quixotic,
- fickle,
- ineffective,
- window dressing,
- volatile,
- meandering,
- Unsolid,
- insecure,
- irresolute,
- wobbling,
- lurching,
- unmetrical,
- amorphous,
- unfaithworthy,
- vacillating,
- promiscuous,
- Unjoined,
- ornamental,
- dancing,
- Deviating,
- dud,
- undisciplined,
- choppy,
- inconsistent,
- wavering,
- casual,
- winding,
- uncertain,
- formless,
- shaky,
- flicky,
- flabby,
- disconnected,
- inane,
- risky,
- impulsive,
- excursive,
- past,
- catchy,
- afloat,
- unordered,
- unreliable,
- negate,
- nonsystematic,
- unsubstantial,
- unclassified,
- vague,
- undependable,
- show,
- chase,
- flickery,
- precarious,
- door,
- blue,
- impractical,
- disarticulated,
- vain,
- disorderly,
- moon around,
- Unsteadfast,
- Flitting,
- capricious,
- out-of-the-way,
- blind alley,
- good,
- Vicissitudinary,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- veering,
- unequal,
- unsteady,
- sputtery,
- disorganized,
- Orderless.
Other synonyms:
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- spot.
- alterable,
- spasmodically,
- nonsense,
- crab-like,
- dj,
- different,
- multiform,
- hogwash,
- erratically,
- capriciously,
- purposelessly,
- shaking,
- hocus-pocus,
- agitated,
- mosaic,
- of every description,
- folly,
- double-talk,
- inordinately,
- Desultorily,
- tale,
- tripe,
- Saltatory,
- Multigenerous,
- randomly,
- Unsuccessive,
- multiplex,
- irregularly,
- mutable,
- slapdash,
- jargon,
- catch-as-catch-can,
- various,
- baloney,
- cobblers,
- uncommitted,
- incongruity,
- acephalous,
- all manner of,
- deranged,
- many-sided,
- unconnected,
- occasional,
- and what not,
- transient,
- out of gear,
- out of order,
- disjunctive,
- vibratory,
- odd,
- digressionary,
- deviously,
- interrupted,
- manifold,
- out of place,
- discrete,
- polymorphous,
- absurdity,
- Giddy-paced,
- Mingled,
- variegated,
- dissimilar,
- recurrent,
- performance,
- diverse,
- divers,
- varied,
- without purpose,
- rigmarole,
- assorted,
- disconnectedly,
- Subsultory,
- mixed,
- discontinuously,
- discursively,
- unconformable,
- heterogeneous,
- Inconsonant,
- epicene,
- shambling,
- alternate,
- Rhapsodical,
- mobile,
- superficially,
- claptrap,
- aimlessly,
- diffuse,
- unquiet,
- Multifold,
- anomalous,
- eyewash,
- convulsive,
- loosely,
- nonsensicality,
- fitfully,
- Flickeringly,
- variform,
- procedure,
- bosh,
- diversified,
- periodic,
- plastic,
- Digressional,
- chance,
- multifarious,
- abrupt,
- indiscriminately.
Antonyms for Desultory:
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adj.
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Other antonyms:
organized, thoughtful, systematic, stable, consistent, deliberate, orderly, even, coherent, direct, fixed, undeviating, orchestrated, straightforward, established, systematized, ordered, purposeful, conscious, set, nonrandom, aware, logical, focused, arranged, willful, planned, regular, continuous, steady, methodical, constant.
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