discursive as an adjective: - 1
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discursive
adjective
1 discursive
Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition.
synonym: dianoetic.
Roget 476:
reasoning
etc.
v.;
rationalistic;
argumentative,
controversial,
dialectic,
polemical;
discursory†,
discursive;
disputatious;
Aristotelian†,
eristic†,
eristical†.
debatable,
controvertible.
logical;
relevant
etc.
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Roget 588:
conversing
etc.
v.;
interlocutory;
conversational,
conversable†;
discursive,
discoursive†;
chatty
etc.
(sociable)
892;
colloquial.
Roget 595:
discursive,
discoursive†;
disquisitionary†;
expository.
2 discursive
of e.g. speech and writing Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects:
— A rambling discursive book.
synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling.
Roget 266:
traveling
etc.
v.;
ambulatory,
itinerant,
peripatetic,
roving,
rambling,
gadding,
discursive,
vagrant,
migratory,
monadic;
circumforanean†,
circumforaneous†;
noctivagrant†,
mundivagrant;
locomotive.
wayfaring,
wayworn;
travel-stained.
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Roget 279:
deviating
etc.
v.;
aberrant,
errant;
excursive,
discursive;
devious,
desultory,
loose;
rambling;
stray,
erratic,
vagrant,
undirected,
circuitous,
indirect,
zigzag;
crab-like.
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Roget 573:
diffuse,
profuse;
wordy,
verbose,
largiloquent†,
copious,
exuberant,
pleonastic,
lengthy;
longsome†,
long-winded,
longspun†,
long drawn out;
spun out,
protracted,
prolix,
prosing,
maundering;
circumlocutory,
periphrastic,
ambagious†,
roundabout;
digressive;
discursive,
excursive;
loose;
rambling episodic;
flatulent,
frothy.
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Moby thesaurus: O-shaped, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, analytic, backhanded, bright, by the way, categorical, circuitous, circular, circumforaneous, conceptive, conceptual, conditional, deductive, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, dialectic, diffuse, digressing, digressive, divagatory, drifting, enthymematic, epagogic, episodic, errant, erratic, excursive, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, helical, hypothetical, ideational, indirect, inductive, inferential, intellectual, intelligent, knowing, labyrinthine, landloping, long-winded, loose, maieutic, maundering, mazy, meandering, migrational, migratory, noetic, nomad, nomadic, not so dumb, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, planetary, prolix, rambling, ranging, rational, reasonable, roaming, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, sane, sensible, serpentine, shifting, snaky, sophic, soritical, spiral, straggling, stray, straying, strolling, strong-minded, swerving, syllogistic, synthetic, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, turning, twisting, understanding, undirected, vagabond, vagrant, veering, verbose, wandering, winding, windy, wordy, zigzag ... show more.
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