- excursive
- adjective Date: 1659 constituting a digression ; characterized by digression • excursively adverb • excursiveness noun
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Excursive — Ex*cur sive, a. Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. [1913 Webster] The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. {Ex*cur sive*ly}, adv. {Ex*cur sive*ness},, n. [1913 Webster] || … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
excursive — index circuitous, devious, indirect, labyrinthine, tangential Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
excursive — [eks kʉr′siv] adj. rambling; desultory; digressive excursively adv. excursiveness n … English World dictionary
excursive — excursively, adv. excursiveness, n. /ik skerr siv/, adj. 1. given to making excursions in speech, thought, etc.; wandering; digressive. 2. of the nature of such excursions; rambling; desultory: excursive conversation. [1665 75; < L excurs(us)… … Universalium
excursive — ex•cur•sive [[t]ɪkˈskɜr sɪv[/t]] adj. 1) given to making excursions in speech, thought, etc.; wandering; digressive 2) of the nature of such excursions; rambling; desultory: excursive conversation[/ex] • Etymology: 1665–75 ex•cur′sive•ly, adv.… … From formal English to slang
excursive — adjective Tending to digress … Wiktionary
excursive — 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, digressive, discursive … Moby Thesaurus
excursive — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. discursive, digressive, rambling, desultory; see indirect , verbose . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by or given to digression: digressive, discursive, parenthetic, parenthetical, rambling, tangential. See… … English dictionary for students
excursive — ex cur·sive || ÉœËsɪv adj. of an excursion; wandering, rambling, moving from one thing to another, erratic … English contemporary dictionary
excursive — adjective formal tending to digress. Derivatives excursively adverb excursiveness noun Origin C17: from L. excurs , excurrere digress, run out … English new terms dictionary
