[responsivevoice]desultory[/responsivevoice] [ des-uh l-tawr-ee ]
The word of the day is ‘desultory’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Random
2. Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
3. Halfhearted
4. Aimless
1. After some desultory conversation, I told him who I was and how I came to be there.
2. Troops may be exposed to desultory shelling during the day or night.
3. As for my education, it was limited, and I may say desultory.
4. I found them sitting on the deck, engaged in a desultory, low-voiced conversation.
5. A few people were left, dancing in a desultory fashion
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
aimless, chaotic, erratic, haphazard, deviating, orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic, without purpose, casual, half-hearted, lukewarm, perfunctory, incidental, random, unmethodical, unsystematic, capricious, offhand, inconsistent, irregular, intermittent, sporadic, inconstant etc.
Quotation:
One book at a time… though I’m usually doing the research for others while I’m writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written – and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
Bernard Cornwell
Social Example:
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