DESULTORY
\diːsˈʌltəɹˌi], \diːsˈʌltəɹˌi], \d_iː_s_ˈʌ_l_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of DESULTORY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.
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Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.
By Oddity Software
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Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.
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Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.
By Noah Webster.
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Passing from one thing to another without order or method; aimless; erratic.
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Desultorily.
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Desultoriness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Desultorily.
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Desultoriness.
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Jumping from one thing to another: without rational or logical connection: rambling: hasty: loose.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Rambling from one thing to another without order or connection; unconnected; coming or occurring abruptly and suddenly.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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