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Discursive Definition And Meaning
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 \Discur"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. -- {Discur"sively}, adv. -- {Discur"sive*ness}, n.

Discursive Definition And Meaning

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

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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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