digressive

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Sure, they're both digressive writers - but so is everyone and their dog since Virginia Wolf.

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Quick take

of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"

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adjective

of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"

adjective

(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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for digressive.

adjective

of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"

adjective

See also: discursive, excursive, rambling

Example sentences

Sure, they're both digressive writers - but so is everyone and their dog since Virginia Wolf.

Usenet newsgroups were social networks, if one recalls the digressive flame wars that could result there, I'd say.

There's something wonderful about the affordance of a digressive paragraph at the foot of the page.

What he’s saying is good, but it is extremely digressive, and the digressions never seem to return to the original point.

I suppose one man's successful negotiation is another man's reason to launch into a digressive rant.

Moby Dick is so encyclopedic and digressive that I'm not surprised that any given random fact about whales might appear in it.

That Naggum email was beautiful, informative, funny and wildly digressive.

Your writing is clear, full of colorful details without becoming too digressive, and unifies the entries with an effective thematic arc that I haven't seen before.

If you think Vonnegut is a bit of an oddball — that digressive, chatty, ironically self-referential style is not for everyone — then Lafferty is something else again.

"both, most importantly, work up an elaborate – and elaborately digressive – plot which deliberately ends as unsatisfactorily as possible.

I'd be willing to bet that the time I would save each day by having the close button more often nearer to where the mouse pointer is when I need to close a window is swallowed up in a single digressive conversation lasting less than a few minutes.