digressive English

Meaning digressive meaning

What does digressive mean?

digressive

— adjective (= discursive, excursive, rambling) (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

— adjective (= tangential) of superficial relevance if any a digressive allusion to the day of the week a tangential remark

Synonyms digressive synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as digressive?

digressive English » English

discursive

excursive

tangential

rambling

variant

twisting

sinuous

meandrian

discrepant

diffusive

devious

deviate

deviant

degenerate

atypical

anomaly

anomalous

abnormal

aberrant