desultory
adjective /ˈdesəltri/
/ˈdesəltɔːri/
(formal)- going from one thing to another, without a definite plan and without enthusiasm
- I wandered about in a desultory fashion.
- a desultory conversation
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDesultory is used with these nouns:- conversation
- fashion
Word Originlate 16th cent. (also in the literal sense ‘skipping about’): from Latin desultorius ‘superficial’ (literally ‘relating to a vaulter’), from desultor ‘vaulter’, from the verb desilire.