Dictionary Definition
digressive adj
1 of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive
allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" [syn:
tangential]
2 (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: discursive, excursive, rambling]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Marked by digression; rambling
Translations
marked by digression; rambling
- Hungarian: csapongó, elkalandozó
- Italian: digressivo
Italian
Adjective
digressive- Feminine plural form of digressivo
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand, backhanded, by the way,
circuitous, circular, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic, errant, erratic, excursive, 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