| 单词 | desultory |
| 释义 | desultory (once / 2359 pages) adj If you lack a definite plan or purpose and flit from one thing to another, your actions are desultory. Some people call such desultory wanderings spontaneous. Others call it "being lost." The adjective desultory comes from the word desultor, which was a circus rider who would leap from the back of one galloping horse onto another. From this literal sense of jumping from one thing to another, we get the modern meaning of desultory as jumping between things without a logical purpose. WORD FAMILYdesultory: desultorily USAGE EXAMPLESPete Carroll sounded no alarms after last Sunday’s desultory loss at Tampa Bay. Seattle Times(Dec 04, 2016) Kyrgios is not the only perpetrator of desultory efforts this season. New York Times(Nov 19, 2016) Either he is no better than the desultory tourist, or he is responsible for the fact that our experiences rarely resemble the advertisements or postcards. New York Times(Sep 22, 2016) adj 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 Syn purposeless not evidencing any purpose or goal |
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