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{"id": "desultory", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "desultory", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "desultorily", "text": "desultorily"}, {"id": "desultoriness", "text": "desultoriness"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late 16th century (also in the literal sense \u2018skipping about\u2019): from Latin desultorius \u2018superficial\u2019 (literally \u2018relating to a vaulter\u2019), from desultor \u2018vaulter\u2019, from the verb desilire"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/desultory_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8d\u025bs(\u0259)lt(\u0259)ri"}, {"dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8d\u025bz(\u0259)lt(\u0259)ri"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm"], "examples": [{"text": "a few people were left, dancing in a desultory fashion"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0269020.006", "shortDefinitions": ["lacking plan or enthusiasm"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["(of conversation or speech) going from one subject to another in a half-hearted way"], "examples": [{"text": "the desultory conversation faded"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0269020.008", "shortDefinitions": ["going from one subject to another in half-hearted way"]}, {"definitions": ["occurring randomly or occasionally"], "examples": [{"text": "desultory passengers were appearing"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0269020.009", "shortDefinitions": ["occurring randomly or occasionally"]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "casual"}, {"language": "en", "text": "half-hearted"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lukewarm"}, {"language": "en", "text": "cursory"}, {"language": "en", "text": "superficial"}, {"language": "en", "text": "token"}, {"language": "en", "text": "perfunctory"}, {"language": "en", "text": "passing"}, {"language": "en", "text": "incidental"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sketchy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "haphazard"}, {"language": "en", "text": "random"}, {"language": "en", "text": "aimless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "rambling"}, {"language": "en", "text": "erratic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unmethodical"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unsystematic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "automatic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unthinking"}, {"language": "en", "text": "capricious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "mechanical"}, {"language": "en", "text": "offhand"}, {"language": "en", "text": "chaotic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "inconsistent"}, {"language": "en", "text": "irregular"}, {"language": "en", "text": "intermittent"}, {"language": "en", "text": "occasional"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sporadic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "inconstant"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fitful"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "desultory", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0003824.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "desultory"}], "type": "headword", "word": "desultory"}], "word": "desultory"}
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