meaning of desultory
1. Leaping or skipping about.
2. Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.
3. Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.
4. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; "desultory thoughts"; "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail
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