- excursive as an adjective:
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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.
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