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[ dih-gres-iv, dahy- ] / dɪˈgrɛs ɪv, daɪ- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR digressive ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivetending to digress; departing from the main subject. Origin of digressiveFrom the Latin word dīgressīvus, dating back to 1605–15. See digress, -ive OTHER WORDS FROM digressivedi·gres·sive·ly, adverbdi·gres·sive·ness, nounun·di·gres·sive, adjectiveun·di·gres·sive·ly, adverb un·di·gres·sive·ness, noun Words nearby digressivedigoxin, digram, digraph, digress, digression, digressive, digs, dig up, dihedral, dihedral angle, dihedral group Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for digressiveHe is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style. Nigeria’s Larger-Than-Life Nobel Laureate Chronicles a Fascinating Life|Chimamanda Adichie|August 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST The Lettre sur les sourds et muets, however, is substantially a digressive examination of some points in aesthetics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4|Various I was simply voluble and digressive—a natural incident of elation. A Mind That Found Itself|Clifford Whittingham Beers It is in this incidental and digressive way that we get the description of the Gospel in i. 18-ii. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7|Various
These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table|Oliver Wendell Holmes In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too,—and at the same time. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman|Laurence Sterne
British Dictionary definitions for digressive
adjectivecharacterized by digression or tending to digress Derived forms of digressivedigressively, adverbdigressiveness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to digressiveexcursive, rambling, tangential |