English synonyms about - contact  
excursivedigressivediscursiveramblingindirect

excursive

adjective

1 excursive

of e.g. speech and writing Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects:
— His excursive remarks.

synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling.

Roget 279: deviating etc. v.; aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, ... show more

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, digressive, discursive ... show more.

Find more on excursive elsewhere: etymology - rhymes - Wikipedia.

debug info: 0.0331