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digressive a. 枝节的;离题的 枝节的;离题的 digressive adj 1: of superficial relevance if any; " a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; " a tangential remark" [ synonym: { digressive}, { tangential}] 2: ( of e. g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; " amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women' s fashions among other things"; " a rambling discursive book"; " his excursive remarks"; " a rambling speech about this and that" [ synonym: { digressive}, { discursive}, { excursive}, { rambling}] Digressive \ Di* gress" ive\, a. [ Cf. F. digressif.] Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. -- Johnson. [ 1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for " digressive": O- shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand, backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic, errant, erratic, excursive, helical, indirect, labyrinthine, left- handed, loose, maundering, mazy, meandering, oblique, orbital, out- of- the- way, planetary, rambling, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, serpentine, shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, undirected, vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, zigzag
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