excursive
/ɪkˈskəːsɪv
/ /ɛkˈskəːsɪv/adjective formal
Tending to deviate from a course or activity; digressive.
Derivatives
excursively
excursiveness
Origin
Late 17th century: from Latin excurs- 'digressed, run out' (from the verb excurrere) + -ive, perhaps influenced by discursive.
Rhymes
- the Bank of Mum and Dad
- the Bar
- the Bard
- the Bard of Avon
- the bare bones
- thebe
- the be-all and end-all
- the Bear
- the Beatitudes
- the beautiful game
- the beautiful people
- the Beehive
- the bee's knees
- the beginning of the end
- the benefit of the doubt
- the Berg
- the Bermudas
- Thebes
- the best-laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley
- the best of both (or all possible) worlds
- the best of three (or five etc.)
- the best (or the pick) of the bunch
- the best part of
- the better part of
- the better to ——