Meaning and example
marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another
Desultory thoughts
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.373 places desultory in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 64.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 64.5%
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- Known by
- 65.1%
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- Known by
- 64.1%
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- Known by
- 64.1%
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- Known by
- 64%
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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