Desultory vs Disoriented - What's the difference?
desultory | disoriented |
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.
As adjectives the difference between desultory and disoriented
is that desultory is jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence while disoriented is having lost one's direction; confused.As a verb disoriented is
(disorient).desultory
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.