desultory (adj.)
- aberrant
- adrift
- afloat
- aimless
- alternating
- amorphous
- broken
- capricious
- casual
- catchy
- changeable
- changeful
- chaotic
- choppy
- circuitous
- dangerous
- deviant
- deviating
- devious
- digressive
- disconnected
- discontinuous
- discursive
- disjunct
- disordered
- disorderly
- disorganized
- dispersed
- disproportionate
- dizzy
- eccentric
- episodic
- errant
- erratic
- excursive
- fickle
- fitful
- flickering
- flighty
- fluctuating
- formless
- freakish
- frivolous
- giddy
- gratuitous
- halting
- haphazard
- hazardous
- hit-or-miss
- impetuous
- impulsive
- inchoate
- incoherent
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- indecisive
- indirect
- indiscriminate
- infirm
- insecure
- insubstantial
- intermittent
- irregular
- irresolute
- irresponsible
- jerky
- labyrinthine
- loose
- mazy
- meandering
- meaningless
- mercurial
- misshapen
- moody
- nonuniform
- out-of-the-way
- patchy
- perilous
- planetary
- planless
- precarious
- promiscuous
- provisional
- purposeless
- rambling
- random
- restless
- risky
- rough
- roving
- scatterbrained
- scrappy
- senseless
- serpentine
- shaky
- shapeless
- shifting
- shifty
- slippery
- snaky
- spasmodic
- spastic
- spineless
- sporadic
- spotty
- staggering
- straggling
- straggly
- stray
- swerving
- temporary
- tentative
- ticklish
- treacherous
- turning
- twisting
- unaccountable
- uncertain
- unclassified
- unconsidered
- uncontrolled
- undependable
- undirected
- undisciplined
- unequal
- uneven
- unfixed
- ungraded
- unmethodical
- unordered
- unorganized
- unplanned
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unrestrained
- unrhythmical
- unsettled
- unsorted
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsubstantial
- unsure
- unsymmetrical
- unsystematic
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- vagrant
- vague
- variable
- volatile
- wandering
- wanton
- wavering
- wavy
- wayward
- whimsical
- winding
- wishy-washy
- wobbling
- wobbly
- zigzag
The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
