Digressive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Digressive \Di*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. digressif.]
     Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of
     digression. --Johnson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  digressive
       adj 1: of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to
              the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" [syn: {tangential}]
       2: (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" [syn: {discursive}, {excursive}, {rambling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "digressive":
     O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand,
     backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional,
     departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory,
     devious, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic, errant,
     erratic, excursive, helical, indirect, labyrinthine, left-handed,
     loose, maundering, mazy, meandering, oblique, orbital,
     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