Definition for Desultory:

• Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.

Synonyms for Desultory:

• adj.

  •discursive (adjective)
  • excursive.
  •hasty (adjective)
  • touch-and-go.
  •indiscriminate (adjective)
  • motley.
  •irregular (adjective)
  • erratic,
  • unrhythmical,
  • unsystematic,
  • fluctuating,
  • sporadic,
  • fitful,
  • intermittent,
  • variable,
  • nonuniform,
  • uneven,
  • eccentric,
  • irregular,
  • inconstant,
  • asymmetric,
  • unpunctual,
  • jerky,
  • capricious.
  •random (adjective)
  • chaotic,
  • rambling,
  • Orderless,
  • chance,
  • haphazard,
  • unsystematic,
  • unmethodical,
  • aimless,
  • Deviating,
  • erratic,
  • unstable.
  •spasmodic (adjective)
  • convulsive.

• n.

  •
  • restless.
  •
  • pointless,
  • aimless.
  •
  • hit-or-miss,
  • unplanned,
  • chance,
  • spot,
  • indiscriminate,
  • haphazard,
  • random.
  •desultory (noun)
  • purposeless.
  •erratic (noun)
  • aimless,
  • miscellaneous,
  • random,
  • disconnected.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • haphazard,
  • pointless,
  • unplanned,
  • indiscriminate.
  •
  • hit-or-miss.
  •
  • spot.
  •discursive
  • excursive.
  •flimsy
  • superficial.
  •haphazard
  • random.
  •purposeless
  • purposeless,
  • aimless.
  •rambling
  • discursive.
  •superficial
  • cursory.
  •Other relevant words:
  • unsound,
  • vacillating,
  • mobile,
  • impulsive,
  • inordinately,
  • periodic,
  • slippery,
  • Multigenerous,
  • interrupted,
  • aberrative,
  • circuitous,
  • meandering,
  • dj,
  • catch-as-catch-can,
  • unfixed,
  • multiplex,
  • touch-and-go,
  • multiform,
  • on-again-off-again,
  • shifty,
  • dancing,
  • disarticulated,
  • Vicissitudinous,
  • deviously,
  • unsure,
  • moody,
  • dissimilar,
  • incoherent,
  • frivolous,
  • promiscuous,
  • unconformable,
  • acephalous,
  • disconnectedly,
  • volatile,
  • purposeless,
  • mosaic,
  • diffuse,
  • ragged,
  • Unjoined,
  • broken,
  • absurdity,
  • many-sided,
  • indirect,
  • tale,
  • wishy-washy,
  • episodic,
  • inchoate,
  • staggering,
  • deviative,
  • excursive,
  • deviant,
  • unstable,
  • wobbling,
  • planless,
  • wavering,
  • shaking,
  • ungraded,
  • unequal,
  • disproportionate,
  • zigzag,
  • serpentine,
  • Unstaid,
  • double-talk,
  • turning,
  • divers,
  • eyewash,
  • disordered,
  • baloney,
  • spasmodically,
  • vagrant,
  • maundering,
  • of every description,
  • out of place,
  • without purpose,
  • aimlessly,
  • swerving,
  • insecure,
  • crab-like,
  • devious,
  • by the way,
  • hogwash,
  • aimless,
  • Flitting,
  • spluttering,
  • disorganized,
  • chaotic,
  • unmethodical,
  • Desultorily,
  • fickle,
  • insubstantial,
  • one-dimensional,
  • abrupt,
  • undisciplined,
  • wavery,
  • veering,
  • bosh,
  • Saltatory,
  • labyrinthine,
  • Deviatory,
  • odd,
  • scrappy,
  • discontinuously,
  • convulsive,
  • lurching,
  • occasional,
  • Careening,
  • vague,
  • mercurial,
  • Digressional,
  • planetary,
  • unsubstantial,
  • senseless,
  • straggling,
  • disjunct,
  • out of order,
  • departing,
  • Unsuccessive,
  • alternating,
  • provisional,
  • performance,
  • discontinuous,
  • restless,
  • halting,
  • nonuniform,
  • alterable,
  • capriciously,
  • all manner of,
  • infirm,
  • unpunctual,
  • wobbly,
  • giddy,
  • cobblers,
  • manifold,
  • pointless,
  • nonsymmetrical,
  • diverse,
  • recurrent,
  • spasmodic,
  • stray,
  • epicene,
  • folly,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • nonsensicality,
  • heterogeneous,
  • flickery,
  • inconsistent,
  • Spasmatic,
  • jargon,
  • unreliable,
  • uncertain,
  • unordered,
  • claptrap,
  • whimsical,
  • purposelessly,
  • roving,
  • Deviating,
  • risky,
  • scatterbrained,
  • haphazard,
  • plastic,
  • treacherous,
  • Mingled,
  • gratuitous,
  • untrustworthy,
  • deranged,
  • rambling,
  • spineless,
  • slapdash,
  • twisting,
  • motley,
  • ticklish,
  • multifarious,
  • miscellaneous,
  • afloat,
  • perilous,
  • unrestrained,
  • Orderless,
  • indecisive,
  • superficially,
  • snaky,
  • unsettled,
  • diversified,
  • unpredictable,
  • hazardous,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • dizzy,
  • different,
  • Rhapsodical,
  • shifting,
  • unplanned,
  • spot,
  • discrete,
  • random,
  • casual,
  • anomalous,
  • Flickeringly,
  • randomly,
  • loosely,
  • digressive,
  • Designless,
  • unconnected,
  • Giddy-paced,
  • undirected,
  • uncommitted,
  • unquiet,
  • mixed,
  • digressionary,
  • incongruity,
  • formless,
  • Vicissitudinary,
  • undependable,
  • various,
  • vibratory,
  • nonsense,
  • variegated,
  • disjunctive,
  • dangerous,
  • variform,
  • spotty,
  • irresponsible,
  • unclassified,
  • Inconsonant,
  • temporary,
  • Unsolid,
  • agitated,
  • changeable,
  • discursively,
  • unaccountable,
  • Intermitting,
  • adrift,
  • wayward,
  • wandering,
  • fluttery,
  • meaningless,
  • wavy,
  • precarious,
  • loose,
  • flighty,
  • superficial,
  • indiscriminately,
  • shuffling,
  • cursory,
  • mutable,
  • Multifold,
  • wanton,
  • Unarranged,
  • tentative,
  • Subsultory,
  • unconsidered,
  • winding,
  • Immethodical,
  • shaky,
  • shapeless,
  • indiscriminate,
  • errant,
  • Heteroclite,
  • irregularly,
  • catchy,
  • erratically,
  • discursive,
  • out of gear,
  • assorted,
  • tripe,
  • aberrant,
  • varied,
  • straggly,
  • polymorphous,
  • guttering,
  • procedure,
  • misshapen,
  • mazy,
  • impetuous,
  • Systemless,
  • fluttering,
  • shambling,
  • Unsteadfast,
  • rigmarole,
  • dispersed,
  • spastic,
  • chance,
  • alternate,
  • irresolute,
  • snatchy,
  • unsymmetrical,
  • nonsystematic,
  • rough,
  • amorphous,
  • patchy,
  • disorderly,
  • changeful,
  • choppy,
  • flickering,
  • disconnected,
  • sputtering,
  • unsteady,
  • freakish,
  • fitfully,
  • unsorted,
  • herky-jerky,
  • transient,
  • hit-or-miss,
  • uncontrolled,
  • unorganized.

Antonyms for Desultory:

• adj.

  • random
    systematic, organized.
  • 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.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    keen, lasting, systematic.