discursive

  • 21discursive — Synonyms and related words: O shaped, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, analytic, backhanded, bright, by the way, categorical, circuitous, circular, circumforaneous, conceptive, conceptual, conditional …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 22discursive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wandering, rambling, desultory, digressive. See deviation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. rambling, desultory, digressive; see verbose . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. rambling, digressive,… …

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  • 23discursive — dis|cur|sive [ dıs kɜrsıv ] adjective including information that is not relevant to the main subject …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 24discursive — see COURSE …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 25discursive — dis·cur·sive || dɪ skɜːsɪv adj. moving from topic to topic; rambling …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 26discursive — [dɪs kə:sɪv] adjective 1》 moving from subject to subject. 2》 relating to discourse or modes of discourse. 3》 Philosophy, archaic proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition. Derivatives discursively adverb discursiveness noun… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 27discursive — a. 1. Reasoning, argumentative, capable of reasoning. 2. Traversing a field of particulars, derived through particulars, passing from many to one, from manifoldness to unity. 3. Roving, wandering, rambling, desultory, taking a wide range …

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  • 28discursive — adj digressive, excursive, desultory, episodic, rhapsodic; circumlocutory, circumlocutional, circumlocutionary, circuitous, roundabout; rambling, roving, wandering, meandering, drifting, straggling, veering; diffuse, wordy, long winded, prolix,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 29discursive — dis·cur·sive …

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  • 30discursive — UK [dɪsˈkɜː(r)sɪv] / US [dɪsˈkɜrsɪv] adjective including information that is not relevant to the main subject …

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