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View synonyms for digressive
digressive
[ dih-gres-iv, dahy- ]
digressive
/ daɪˈɡrɛsɪv /
adjective
- characterized by digression or tending to digress
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Derived Forms
- diˈgressiveness, noun
- diˈgressively, adverb
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Other Words From
- di·gressive·ly adverb
- di·gressive·ness noun
- undi·gressive adjective
- undi·gressive·ly adverb
- undi·gressive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of digressive1
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Example Sentences
He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style.
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It is in this incidental and digressive way that we get the description of the Gospel in i. 18-ii.
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They were simply digressive, which was to be expected, as elation befogs one's "goal idea."
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Several chapters, that seem digressive in an historical light, are to be defended by this consideration.
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Isabel had not been so digressive and withholding as he had thought.
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Instances might be multiplied of this humorous self-abandonment; but we are growing digressive.
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