Excursive

3 definitions found

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

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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" [syn: {digressive}, {discursive}, {rambling}]

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

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "excursive":
     O-shaped, 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,
     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