digressive
adjective
1 digressive
Of superficial relevance if any:
— A digressive allusion to the day of the week.
synonym: tangential.
2 digressive
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.
synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling.
Roget 573: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent†, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome†, long-winded, longspun†, long drawn out; spun out, ... show more
Moby thesaurus: O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand, backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, discursive, divagational ... show more.
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