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digressive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | tangential |
a digressive allusion to the day of the week.
digressive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | discursive, excursive, rambling |
| Derivation | digress |
amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things.
Examples of digressive
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This, however, was typically digressive banter from Clerici, 72, and Tommasi, 68.
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Its loose, digressive shape makes Turn of the Century awfully easy to put down.
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It was almost twice as long and had a lot of what I think of as digressive material.
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Any discussion on that score takes us further in the digressive discourse.
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It is one of the most digressive, wide-ranging books in Western literature.
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Their speech may be vague, digressive, and include unusual or idiosyncratic phrasing.
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Early seasons of Lost tended to get slack and digressive in the middle.
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Whitehead forgoes plot in favor of Benji's riffing, digressive narration.
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What's important is the casual, even digressive, movement of the piece.
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- Of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"
- (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"
- (digression) a message that departs from the main subject
- (digression) diversion: a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
- Digression (parekbasis in Greek, egressio, digressio and excursion in Latin) is a section of a composition or speech that is an intentional change of subject. ...
- Marked by digression; rambling
- (digression) A departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern
- (Digression) Mathematical solutions to exercises 2.4.1B and 2.4.1C provide insight. Using calculus, the rate of flow in exercise B can be written as the change in level with respect to time (the "derivative").
- (Digression) A temporary departure from the main subject in speaking or writing. Digressions may be inadvertent but usually aren't. When asked a difficult question, a politician might intentionally go off on a tangent. He'll talk for a while but never actually get around to answering the query. ...
