excursive
Americanadjective
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given to making excursions in speech, thought, etc.; wandering; digressive.
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of the nature of such excursions; rambling; desultory.
excursive conversation.
adjective
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tending to digress
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involving detours; rambling
Other Word Forms
- excursively adverb
- excursiveness noun
- hyperexcursive adjective
- hyperexcursively adverb
- hyperexcursiveness noun
- unexcursive adjective
- unexcursively adverb
Etymology
Origin of excursive
Example Sentences
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Charm abounds — again, this is Tom Hanks — but “Masterpiece” is too often a maddeningly excursive endeavor that made me think, more than once, of a Richard Scarry book without the drawings.
From New York Times • May 7, 2023
But it’s less linear — the excursive record of a lifelong pilgrim over the 40 years since her groundbreaking debut album, “Horses.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2015
Rather, it is a more excursive record of a lifelong pilgrim, illustrated by Smith’s own black-and-white photographs, filled with mementos mori and personal accounts of her travels, her artistic obsessions and inspirations.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2015
Downtown, Montgomery Ward installed a new Customer’s Parlor, where excursive fair visitors could loiter on soft couches while browsing the company’s five-hundred-page catalog.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
To trace what modifications these schools have undergone from that period to the present would be a too widely excursive notice for our present purpose.
From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William
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