digressive
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8.1
- adjective
- /dɪˈɡrɛsɪv/
- Formal
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digresivo
- Her writing style is often described as digressive, leading the reader through various unrelated ideas.
- digressive learning
Examples
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The film is digressive and scattered, but without the possibility that viewers can flip back and forth to make their own connections.
Blog text (7) -
Gongora's imperative for depicting the wedding games, so seemingly digressive from the nuptial storyline, can be partly explained by the timing of the day's events.
Academic text (1998) -
This makes for a digressive presentation of these subjects, for which I apologize.
Academic text (1999) -
A little digressive, but I think that's part of the appeal.
Blog text (10) -
Which was also what a dozen other lengthy texts said in a dozen slightly different and digressive ways.
Fiction book (1990) -
Insofar as this historical background is digressive, it must be interpreted as external to the central action.
Academic text (1997) -
Key elements of the model include digressive and immersion learning, self-directed learning, and the integration of work and play.
Academic text (2002) -
Only the legends remain, and they are reduced to constables' reports, to the repetitious, digressive stories of the small towns and villages.
Fiction book (1997) -
"I thought their conversation was a little discouraging—you’re getting too digressive again—but once they got into action everything zipped right along."
Fiction book (1990) -
Neil Young's new memoir is a thick, digressive epic—we cherry-picked the tastiest tidbits.
Blog text (27)
Synonyms
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8.1
Only slightly related to the main topic
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6.1
Lengthy and confused speech or writing that loses its main point
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8.3
Speaking or writing that moves from one topic to another without clear order
To wander away from the main subject in speech or writing and cover many topics
Antonyms
How Digressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Digressive comes from Latin parts de- meaning 'away' and gress meaning 'step', as in progress ('step forward'). So, to be digressive is to 'step away' from the main topic and go off on a different idea.