Digressive: Synonyms in English

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digressive:
- rambling; excursive; digressive; discursive; tangential
digress:
- digress; stray off; wander; stray; divagate; depart; sidetrack; straggle

English

Detailed Synonyms for digressive in English

(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects¹
- amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things¹
of superficial relevance if any¹
- a digressive allusion to the day of the week¹

to digress
to digress; to stray off
- digress verb (digresss, digressed, digressing)
- stray off verb (strays off, strayed off, straying off)
to digress

– lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking ¹
to wander; stray; to digress; divagate
– lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking ¹
- wander verb (wanders, wandered, wandering)
  - her mind wanders¹
- stray verb
- digress verb (digresss, digressed, digressing)
  - She always digresses when telling a story¹
  - Don't digress when you give a lecture¹
- divagate verb
to digress

– wander from a direct or straight course ¹
to depart; to digress; to sidetrack; straggle
– wander from a direct or straight course ¹
- depart verb (departs, departed, departing)
- digress verb (digresss, digressed, digressing)
- sidetrack verb (sidetracks, sidetracked, sidetracking)
- straggle verb

1. I, 2. you, 3. he/she/it, 4. we, 5. you, 6. they

lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking¹
- She always digresses when telling a story¹
- Don't digress when you give a lecture¹
wander from a direct or straight course¹