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digressionary

adjective

as in rambling
passing from one topic to another the professor's digressionary style is appealing to some students and completely off-putting to others

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  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
  • Within this region are two major neural pathways, known as the direct and indirect pathways, which appear to exert opposing influences over which actions are expressed.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Fabbrica, officials said, is an indirect subsidiary of a global construction company headquartered in Italy.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of indirect
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“Digressionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digressionary. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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