If you lack a definite plan or purpose and flit from one thing to another, your actions are desultory. Some people call such desultory wanderings spontaneous. Others call it "being lost."
Leaping or skipping about.
Adjective S.
marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; "desultory thoughts"; "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"
a.
Leaping or skipping about.
a.
Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to
another, without order or rational connection; without logical
sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.
a.
Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not
connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.
Desultory
I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim.2.
He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory.3.
Leaping or skipping about.
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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