digressive
[dih-gres-iv, dahy-]
- tending to digress; departing from the main subject.
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Origin of digressive
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Examples from the Web for digressive
Contemporary Examples
He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style.
Nigeria’s Larger-Than-Life Nobel Laureate Chronicles a Fascinating LifeChimamanda Adichie
August 9, 2014
Historical Examples
Isabel had not been so digressive and withholding as he had thought.
Pierre; or The AmbiguitiesHerman Melville
A story should be progressive, not digressive and episodical.
How to Write a NovelAnonymous
I was simply voluble and digressive—a natural incident of elation.
A Mind That Found ItselfClifford Whittingham Beers
Exasperating as Crabbe's style sometimes is, he seldom bores—never indeed except in his rare passages of digressive reflection.
Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860George Saintsbury
These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-TableOliver Wendell Holmes
digressive
- characterized by digression or tending to digress
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