Meaning of EXCURSIVE
| Pronunciation: | | ik'skursiv
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | digressive, discursive, indirect, rambling |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*cur"sive\, a.
Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as,
an excursive fancy.
The course of excursive . . . understandings. --I.
Taylor.
-- {Ex*cur"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*cur"sive*ness},, n.
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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, digressive, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic, errant, erratic, 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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