desultory

desultory [adjective]: lacking a plan or purpose; disconnected.

Example: Some of the students were not interested in the project, and so they went about it in a desultory fashion.

Related words: desultorily [adverb], desultoriness [noun]

Synonyms: aimless, casual, directionless, drifting, erratic, fitful, flighty, haphazard, orderless, purposeless, random, unmethodical, unplanned, unsystematic

Antonyms: deliberate, determined, firm, fixed, intense, intent, persistent, purposeful, purposive, resolute, single-minded, steadfast, tenacious, undeviating, unfaltering, unwavering

Tags: GRE

Category: Vocabulary words

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