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Definition of Desultory
1. Adjective. Marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another. "The desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"
Definition of Desultory
1. a. Leaping or skipping about.
Definition of Desultory
1. Adjective. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless. ¹
2. Adjective. Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject. ¹
3. Adjective. Disappointing in performance or progress. ¹
4. Adjective. (obsolete) Leaping, skipping or flitting about, generally in a random or unsteady manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desultory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desultory
Literary usage of Desultory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology by Boris Sidis (1914)
"CHAPTER XVII THE desultory TYPE IN PATHOLOGICAL STATES. A FORM of reproduction
analogous to the ones present in the desultory moment is to be found in ..."
2. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"... announced even its apparent conclusion. ni • T 1-1 -11 t /i AT-1 warfare of
These two years were passed in somewhat desultory desultory lighting, ..."
3. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"... Book 12mo 1 50 JAMES'S The desultory Man 12mo$l 50 The Gentleman of the Old
School.. 12mo 1 50 The Gipsy 12mo 1 50 The Huguenot 12mo 1 50 The Jacquerie ..."
4. The Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States. With by William Jewett Tenney (1865)
"desultory Operations In Virginia—General Grant appointed ... IN Virginia, a few
desultory operations took place previous to the commencement of the great ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"Glover proposed to employ them in the first instance in some desultory raids,
till, flushed with victory, their unwillingness would be overcome ..."
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