Found 3 hits - Term: digressive, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
digressive \digress"ive\, a. cf. f. digressif.
departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of
digression. --johnson.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
digressive
adj 1: of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to
the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" syn: tangential
2: 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" syn: discursive, excursive, rambling
see also:
tangential discursive excursive rambling
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
60 moby thesaurus words for "digressive":
o-shaped, 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,
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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