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digressional

adjective

as in rambling
passing from one topic to another the freely digressional routines that many stand-up comedians employ

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for digressional
  1. rambling
  2. wandering
  3. indirect
Adjective
  • The rambling result is friendly and approachable—a one-level house with plenty of room for entertaining guests, as well as thoughtful steal-away spaces for catching your breath.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2026
  • His public remarks are rambling and error-filled, and rely on a shrinking pool of vocabulary terms.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of rambling
Adjective
  • Cleveland also presumed rightly that Kiffin’s professional wandering eye meant the pairing was destined for a bad ending.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • With Black Friday and also Christmas Day games on Netflix only becoming a thing over the past couple of years, some have wondered if the NFL has a wandering eye.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of wandering
Adjective
  • Netanyahu pulled out of the agreement that March, but Qatar remained the principal venue for indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Alongside these projects, notable indirect investments include Aurora Media (Secuoya), Culture CAP 7 and Moby Dick.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of indirect
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“Digressional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digressional. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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