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Discursive synonyms

dĭ-skûr'sĭv

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rambling
Extended over an irregular area; sprawling:
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desultory
Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject.
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verbose (related)
Using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy.
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digressive
Digressing or given to digression
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roving
Wandering freely.
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excursive
Tending to digress.
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parenthetic
Of, pertaining to, or as if using parentheses
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parenthetical
Interjected as qualifying information or explanation
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tangential
Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
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approach (related)
Marked by or given to digression
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dianoetic
Pertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual.
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performative (related)
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discourse (related)
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semiotic (related)
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representational (related)
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dialectical (related)
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reflexive (related)
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dialogical (related)
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dialogic (related)
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conceptual (related)
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self-reflexive (related)
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Discursive Sentence Examples

  • Demosthenes has at command all the discursive brilliancy which fascinates a festal audience.

  • He was, for his time, a voluminous as well as a very discursive writer.

  • In 1878 he dug unsuccessfully in Ithaca, and in the same year and the following resumed work at Hissarlik, and summed up his results in a discursive memoir, Ilios, upon which a sequel, Troja, issued in 1884, after Wilhelm D6rpfeld, associated in 1882, had introduced some archaeological method into the explorations, was a considerable improvement.

  • The source of all our knowledge is experience and discursive thought, which manipulates the materials of sense.

  • It is discursive and badly arranged, but it is marked by a power of style, a vigour of narrative, and a skill in delineation of character which give life to the most unattractive period of German history; notwithstanding the extreme spirit of partisanship and some faults of taste, it will remain a remarkable monument of literary ability.

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