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UK
/daɪɡɹˈɛsɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
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of superficial relevance if any
a tangential remark
a digressive allusion to the day of the week -
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
his excursive remarks
a rambling discursive book
amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things
a rambling speech about this and that
How To Use digressive In A Sentence
- Now day, there is a delicate relation in education, instruction theory and the PC game. There is digressive problem between education theory and education actuality.
- He tore into his guitar solos with a ferocity that seemed to forget the previous two years of druggy digressiveness.
- For, as noted above, Tasso's is the first vernacular poem to mold Musaeus in the Ovidian heroic manner: apostrophe, ethopoeia and digressive mythopoeia abound.
- But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material.
- But that kind of digressive storytelling makes me wonder if "Mad Men" will ever truly be a crossover hit - something that rises above, say, 2 or 3 million viewers. Undefined
- Each was a long, highly literary, digressive, and polemical account of the failure of the colonists to make good their British patrimony.
- It is a digressive process that leaks out intimations of personality and establishes a position for the portrait where it does not remain static but finds a more dialogic approach to psychological portraiture.
- Eugenides lets us know he knows what we know about the fictiveness of fiction; he even evokes "Tristram Shandy's" digressive account of the narrator's own conception. The Gender Blender
- You could end up in a frame of mind, a digressive meditation on the dislocation of people or cultures, or you could end up in prison.
- I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league. Cake