725 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ diːsˈʌltəɹˌi], [ diːsˈʌltəɹˌi], [ d_iː_s_ˈʌ_l_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]

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)

Homophones for desultory

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.
  • all (adjective)
  • desultory.
  • cursory (adjective)
  • 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.
  • discontinuous (adjective)
  • 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.
  • erratic (adjective)
  • 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.
  • excursive (adjective)
  • ex cursive,
  • in direct,
  • in-direct,
  • ex-cursive.
  • fitful (adjective)
  • 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.
  • haphazard (adjective)
  • 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.
  • hasty (adjective)
  • touch-and-go.
  • indiscriminate (adjective)
  • Imperceptive,
  • unselective,
  • motley,
  • wholesale,
  • undiscriminating.
  • irregular (adjective)
  • asymmetric,
  • up and down,
  • unpunctual,
  • fragmentary.
  • occasional (adjective)
  • 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.
  • one-dimensional (adjective)
  • onedimensional,
  • one dimensional.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • 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.
  • purposeless (adjective)
  • 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.
  • ragged (adjective)
  • 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.
  • rambling (adjective)
  • long winded,
  • periphrastic,
  • dis-cursive,
  • in-congruous,
  • in congruous,
  • dis cursive.
  • roving (adjective)
  • peregrine,
  • more peregrine,
  • most peregrine,
  • peripatetic.
  • spasmodic (adjective)
  • most spurtive,
  • most convulsive,
  • spurtive,
  • more convulsive,
  • more spurtive.
  • sporadic (adjective)
  • more semioccasional,
  • semi occasional,
  • semi-occasional,
  • most semioccasional.
  • spotty (adjective)
  • pimpliest,
  • un equal,
  • un-equal,
  • pimplier.
  • superficial (adjective)
  • 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.
  • touch-and-go (adjective)
  • touch and go.

• n.

  •
  • uninspired,
  • bored,
  • apathetic,
  • world-weary,
  • fed up,
  • listless,
  • blase,
  • indifferent,
  • unenthusiastic.
  •
  • purpose.
  • erratic (noun)
  • study at random,
  • miscellaneous.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • 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:

  •
  • spot.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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.

Homophones for Desultory:

• Deciliter, decaliter, decilitre, dekalitre, dekaliter, decalitre.