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Excursive

Excursive Meaning & Definition
Excursive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Excursive?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Excursive: digressive | discursive | indirect | rambling

Related Terms | Find terms related to Excursive: 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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Excursive In Webster's Dictionary

\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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