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digressive
[ dih-gres-iv, dahy- ]
digressive
/ daɪˈɡrɛsɪv /
adjective
- characterized by digression or tending to digress
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Derived Forms
- diˈgressiveness, noun
- diˈgressively, adverb
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Other Words From
- di·gressive·ly adverb
- di·gressive·ness noun
- undi·gressive adjective
- undi·gressive·ly adverb
- undi·gressive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of digressive1
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Example Sentences
He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style.
It is in this incidental and digressive way that we get the description of the Gospel in i. 18-ii.
They were simply digressive, which was to be expected, as elation befogs one's "goal idea."
Several chapters, that seem digressive in an historical light, are to be defended by this consideration.
Isabel had not been so digressive and withholding as he had thought.
Instances might be multiplied of this humorous self-abandonment; but we are growing digressive.
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