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单词 desultory
释义
desultory
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈdes.əl.tər.i/us
/ˈdes.əl.tɔːr.i/
without aclearplanorpurposeandshowinglittleeffortorinterest:
漫无目的的，随意的；无计划的
She made a desultoryattemptatconversation.她只是随意聊聊而已。
Hewanderedaround,cleaningup in a desultory way.他四下走走，心不在焉地收拾收拾。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
having no clear plan or purpose
  • aimlessHe was just aimless and confused after being let go from his position.
  • directionlessThe party was plagued with weak and directionless leaders who had no clue how to govern.
  • purposelessThe job left him feeling unfulfiled and purposeless.
  • adriftHis son has just been utterly adrift since leaving university.
  • emptyAfter losing him, I just feel empty inside.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
  • a mug's gameidiom
  • adrift
  • aimless
  • aimlessly
  • aimlessness
  • airy-fairy
  • frivolousness
  • fruitless
  • fruitlessly
  • fruitlessness
  • futile
  • motiveless
  • negate
  • negation
  • no goodidiom
  • unfruitful
  • unrealistic
  • unrealistically
  • untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
  • unviability
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Related word

desultorily
(Definition ofdesultoryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdesultory

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This group will wait in a kind ofdesultorysilence, with little chatting, before the tea is handed into the room from the back.
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The bodies are like plasticine, disjointed and collapsing under pressure, while the movements seemdesultoryand impersonal.
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Identifying the established church in close scriptural analyses and involved textual exegesis was far more than adesultoryapplication of convenient imagery or simile.
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In fact, she works at far below her true capacity - she studies very little and makesdesultoryefforts - and is still richly rewarded.
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Classrooms are, of course, sites of natural, or informal, ordesultoryconversation.
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However irregular anddesultoryhis talk, there is method in the fragments.
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Soviet opera in the 1920s had been adesultoryaffair and was in urgent need of reform.
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It is, moreover, somewhatdesultoryand impressionistic-as well as confessedly tentative.
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The ending is not consolation, but desolation - or, if even that risks sounding too sentimental -desultory, with a few clattery, breathy sounds that might as well be silence.
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The conversation wasdesultory, lazy, pointless.
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Edmonston (1809) noted that women usually lived longer than men, and preserved their faculties better, 'it may be from having been less exposed to excessive anddesultorylabour'.
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The convoys of food have been kept up in spite ofdesultoryattacks made by hooligans and strikers.
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It is the fact that we have been engaged indesultoryand spasmodic conflicts for periods of that length.
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I apologise for the ratherdesultorynature of these remarks.
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That shows in what adesultorymanner nurses were expected to pick up their education in those days.
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