About The Word Discursive
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Discursive Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Discursive?
[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] (philosophy) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition Synonyms | Synonyms for Discursive: dianoetic | digressive | excursive | indirect | logical | rambling Related Terms | Find terms related to Discursive: a fortiori | a posteriori | a priori | aberrant | aberrative | aimless | ambagious | analytic | backhanded | bright | by the way | categorical | circuitous | circular | circumforaneous | conceptive | conceptual | conditional | deductive | departing | desultory | deviant | deviating | deviative | deviatory | devious | dialectic | diffuse | digressing | digressive | divagatory | drifting | enthymematic | epagogic | episodic | errant | erratic | excursive | flitting | floating | footloose | footloose and fancy-free | fugitive | gadding | gypsyish | gypsy-like | helical | hypothetical | ideational | indirect | inductive | inferential | intellectual | intelligent | knowing | labyrinthine | landloping | long-winded | loose | maieutic | maundering | mazy | meandering | migrational | migratory | noetic | nomad | nomadic | not so dumb | oblique | orbital | O-shaped | out-of-the-way | planetary | prolix | rambling | ranging | rational | reasonable | roaming | rotary | round | roundabout | roving | sane | sensible | serpentine | shifting | snaky | sophic | soritical | spiral | straggling | stray | straying | strolling | strong-minded | swerving | syllogistic | synthetic | traipsing | transient | transitory | transmigratory | turning | twisting | understanding | undirected | vagabond | vagrant | veering | verbose | wandering | winding | windy | wordy | zigzag See Also | Discursive In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See
{Discourse}, and cf. {Discoursive}.]
1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide
field; roving; digressive; desultory. ``Discursive
notices.'' --De Quincey.
The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not
intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt.
A man rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle.
2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in
reasoning; argumentative.
Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive.
--Milton.
-- {Dis*cur"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ness}, n.
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