Synonyms for digressive

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dih-gres-iv, dahy-

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈgrɛs ɪv, daɪ-

Définition of digressive

adj tending to depart from point

Example sentences :

Isabel had not been so digressive and withholding as he had thought.
Extract from : « Pierre; or The Ambiguities » by Herman Melville

A story should be progressive, not digressive and episodical.
Extract from : « How to Write a Novel » by Anonymous

I was simply voluble and digressive—a natural incident of elation.
Extract from : « A Mind That Found Itself » by Clifford Whittingham Beers

Exasperating as Crabbe's style sometimes is, he seldom bores—never indeed except in his rare passages of digressive reflection.
Extract from : « Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 » by George Saintsbury

These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them.
Extract from : « The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes

A rule which, strictly speaking, is not outraged by the digressive exclamations of Camons.
Extract from : « The Lusiad » by Lus de Cames

She was not a very attentive listener to honest Johns talk, profuse and digressive as that was.
Extract from : « The House on the Moor, v. 3/3 » by Mrs. Oliphant

In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too,—and at the same time.
Extract from : « The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman » by Laurence Sterne

It is in this incidental and digressive way that we get the description of the Gospel in i. 18-ii.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 » by Various

The Lettre sur les sourds et muets, however, is substantially a digressive examination of some points in aesthetics.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 » by Various

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