excursive

ex·cur·sive

adj \-ˈskər-siv\

Definition of EXCURSIVE

: constituting a digression : characterized by digression

— ex·cur·sive·ly adverb

— ex·cur·sive·ness noun

Examples of EXCURSIVE

1. <an excursive story line that some readers of Melville's novel find very rewarding>

First Known Use of EXCURSIVE

1659

Related to EXCURSIVE

Synonyms: desultory, digressional, digressionary, digressive, discursive, leaping, maundering, meandering, rambling, wandering

Related Words: circuitous, deviating, devious, indirect, roundabout

Near Antonyms: coherent, consistent, logical; direct, focused (also focussed), straightforward, undeviating

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Rhymes with EXCURSIVE

aversive, coercive, detersive, discursive, dispersive, inversive, perversive, recursive, subversive