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Digressive
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1. digressive, tangential
of superficial relevance if any
Example Sentences:'a digressive allusion to the day of the week''a tangential remark'
2. digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
Example Sentences:'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'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Digressive
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Digressive
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