discursive
adjective
passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
discursively
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a word derived from
discursive.
Example Sentences
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The novels meander discursively through time, so it does not matter where one begins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Throughout this discursively soulful book runs a series of interconnected questions: Why did I make it when so many others didn’t?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024
But discursively, conversationally, verbally, at some semantic level, she remained my mom.
From Salon ● May 9, 2022
It ventures discursively, “Hedwig” style, through hilarious stories and moving fables, some of which Mitchell draws from his own life and transmutes, miraculously, into a weird and wonderful alloy.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2019
It is that the state in which the mind ceases to think discursively and is concentrated on itself is not only desirable but the summum bonum.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot
