discursive — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Of or concerning discourse. Tending to digress from the main point.

   Uso

   • of speech or writing

   Sinonimi

   digressiveramblingdiscoursive

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   This period had long since passed; the discursive reading, the enlightened discourse of her grandfather, had cast her mind in a different mould to the usual superstition of her country; but faith and love were only more pure and perfect in a soul too innocent not to be religious.

   This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.

2. Of or concerning discourse. Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

   Sinonimi

   discoursive

Aggettivo

1. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition

   Sinonimi

   dianoetic

2. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects

   Sinonimi

   digressiveexcursiverambling

   Esempi

   amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things

   a rambling discursive book

   Altri esempi (2)

   his excursive remarks

   a rambling speech about this and that