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desultoryadjective lacking a definite plan, purpose, or patterna desultory search for something of interest on TV aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, erratic, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, random, scattered, slapdash, stray accidental, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, fluky(also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, unconsidered, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditatedscattershot, shotgunirregular, odd, sporadic, spotdirectionless, objectless, purposelessindiscriminate, unsystematicundirecteddisorderly, disorganizedundiscriminating, unselective methodical(also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steadyconstant, continuous, evenarranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, plannedaware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful(or wilful) passing from one topic to anothera desultory discussion about the news of the day digressional, digressionary, digressive, discursive, excursive, leaping, maundering, meandering, rambling, wandering circuitous, deviating, devious, indirect, roundabout coherent, consistent, logicaldirect, focused(also focussed), straightforward, undeviating in 1581 |