Changeable vs Desultory - What's the difference?
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Capable of being changed.
Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence.
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Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject.
Disappointing in performance or progress.
(obsolete) Leaping, skipping or flitting about, generally in a random or unsteady manner.
Changeable is a related term of desultory.
As adjectives the difference between changeable and desultory
is that changeable is capable of being changed while desultory is jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence.changeable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The weather is very changeable today; it can be bright sunshine, cloudy, windy and rainy in the same half-hour.
Derived terms
* changeably * changeabilitydesultory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- To mend the matter, Hamlet's aunt had the family failing of indulging in soliloquy, and held forth in a desultory manner, by herself, on every topic that was introduced.
- He wandered round, cleaning up in a desultory way.
- I teach a class of desultory minds.
- I made a desultory remark while I was talking to my friend.
- She made a desultory attempt at conversation.