'Digressive' definitions:
Definition of 'digressive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" [syn: digressive, tangential]
adjective
(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: digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling]
Definition of 'Digressive'
From: GCIDE
- Digressive \Di*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. digressif.] Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'digressive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- O-shaped,
- 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