'Discursive' definitions:
Definition of 'discursive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition [syn: dianoetic, discursive]
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 'Discursive'
From: GCIDE
- Discursive \Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See Discourse, and cf. Discoursive.]
- 1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
- A man rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. [1913 Webster]
- Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. --Milton. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*cur"sive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'discursive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- O-shaped,
- 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