as in rambling
passing from one topic to another
a digressive lecture on current events around the world
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Recent Examples of digressive
In the pugilistic, digressive arena of a YouTube debate, advocates for the right are just more experienced at getting their point across.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2025
Famously, his digressive speeches require deep immersion in right-wing lore to comprehend.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Yet, as digressive as its surface seems, an artist’s sense of creative organization is at work.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
The novel is detailed, digressive, densely populated, dull at times (as life is) and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather.
—Mj Franklin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2025
Famously, his digressive speeches require deep immersion in right-wing lore to comprehend.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Yet, as digressive as its surface seems, an artist’s sense of creative organization is at work.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
The novel is detailed, digressive, densely populated, dull at times (as life is) and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather.
—Mj Franklin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for digressive
Adjective
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Refine your key points to be clear and concise—no rambling monologues.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Set entirely in Linda’s Manhattan apartment, the film freely and imaginatively recreates that long-ago afternoon and the wonderfully discursive exchange between these two singular individuals.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2025
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There’s a discursive ramble about ordering Chinese food that takes on a strange power.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Digressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digressive. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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