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Digressive

Digressive Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Digressive? [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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Digressive: discursive \| excursive \| indirect \| irrelevant \| rambling \| tangential Related Terms \| Find terms related to Digressive: 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 See Also \| Digressive In Webster's Dictionary \Di*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. digressif.] Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. --Johnson.

Digressive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Digressive?

[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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Digressive In Webster's Dictionary

\Di*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. digressif.]
Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of
digression. --Johnson.

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