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adjective
Date: circa 1611
characterized by digressions <a digressive talk> • digressively adverb • digressiveness noun
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
digressive
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Digressive — Di*gress ive, a. [Cf. F. digressif.] Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. Johnson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
digressive — index alien (unrelated), circuitous, desultory, disparate, indirect, labyrinthine, shifting, tangential … Law dictionary
digressive — [di gres′iv, dīgres′iv] adj. digressing or given to digression digressively adv. digressiveness n … English World dictionary
digressive — adjective 1. of superficial relevance if any a digressive allusion to the day of the week a tangential remark • Syn: ↑tangential • Similar to: ↑irrelevant 2. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range … Useful english dictionary
digressive — digress ► VERB ▪ leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing. DERIVATIVES digression noun digressive adjective. ORIGIN Latin digredi step away … English terms dictionary
digressive — digressively, adv. digressiveness, n. /di gres iv, duy /, adj. tending to digress; departing from the main subject. [1605 15; < L digressivus. See DIGRESS, IVE] * * * … Universalium
digressive — adjective Marked by digression; rambling See Also: digress, digression … Wiktionary
digressive — Synonyms and related words: O shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand, backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, discursive,… … Moby Thesaurus
digressive — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by or given to digression: discursive, excursive, parenthetic, parenthetical, rambling, tangential. See APPROACH … English dictionary for students
digressive — di gres·sive || sɪv adj. tending to stray or wander, tending to deviate from the main point (in writing or speaking) … English contemporary dictionary
