Meaning of DIGRESSIVE
| Pronunciation: | | di'gresiv
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- [adj] (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"
- [adj] of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"
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| | Synonyms: | | discursive, excursive, indirect, irrelevant, rambling, tangential |
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| | Definition: | | \Di*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. digressif.]
Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of
digression. --Johnson.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand, backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic, errant, erratic, excursive, helical, indirect, labyrinthine, left-handed, loose, maundering, mazy, meandering, oblique, orbital, O-shaped, out-of-the-way, planetary, rambling, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, serpentine, shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, undirected, vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, zigzag |
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