| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending to depart from point |
| Synonyms: | excursive, rambling, tangential |
| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
| Synonyms: | deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| Main Entry: | episodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intermittent; composed of several tales |
| Synonyms: | anecdotal, digressive, disconnected, discursive, disjointed, incidental, irregular, occasional, picaresque, rambling, roundabout, segmented, soap opera, sporadic, wandering |
| Antonyms: | connected, lasting, permanent, regular, unbroken |
| Main Entry: | rambling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disconnected, wordy |
| Synonyms: | circuitous, confused, desultory, diffuse, digressive, discursive, disjointed, incoherent, incongruous, irregular, long-winded, periphrastic, prolix |
| Antonyms: | connected, direct, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | wandering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itinerant |
| Synonyms: | deviating, devious, digressive, drifting, errant, erratic, excursive, landloping, meandering, migrant, migratory, nomadic, planetary, rambling, roaming, roving, straying, traveling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wayfaring |
| Main Entry: | excursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discursive |
| Synonyms: | desultory, digressive, indirect, rambling, verbose |
| Main Entry: | tangential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | digressing |
| Synonyms: | digressive, divergent, diverging, extraneous, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | roving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving around |
| Synonyms: | ambulatory, arrant, desultory, digressive, discursive, itinerant, migratory, mobile, nomadic, peregrine, peripatetic, roaming, vagrant, wandering |