ex-cursive [ik-skur-siv]
Main Entry:
complex [adj., v. kuhm-pleks, kom-pleks; n. kom-pleks]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult to understand
Synonyms: Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, abstruse, bewildering, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cryptic, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, entangled, excursive, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mingled, mixed, muddled, obscure, paradoxical, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, round-about, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding
Notes: something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated
Antonyms: apparent, clear, direct, discernible, easy, evident, obvious, plain
Main Entry: discursive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rambling
Synonyms: deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering
Main Entry: excursive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: discursive
Synonyms: desultory, digressive, indirect, rambling, verbose
Main Entry: deviating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: divergent
Synonyms: aberrant, aberrative, circuitous, devious, excursional, excursionary, excursive, heteroclite, obliquitous, parenthetical, serpentine, straying, tangent, tangential, tortuous
Main Entry: digressive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tending to depart from point
Synonyms: excursive, rambling, tangential
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: parenthetic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: digressive
Synonyms: departing, detouring, differing, discursive, excursive, parenthetical, rambling, tangential
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