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ex-cursive
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discursive |
| Synonyms: | desultory, digressive, indirect, rambling, verbose |
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked; indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bending, circuitous, confounding, confusing, curving, detouring, deviating, digressing, digressory, diverting, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuous, misleading, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, remote, removed, roundabout, serpentine, straying, tortuous, twisting, wandering |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
| Synonyms: | deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| 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: | digressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending to depart from point |
| Synonyms: | excursive, rambling, tangential |
| 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: | parenthetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | digressive |
| Synonyms: | departing, detouring, differing, discursive, excursive, parenthetical, rambling, tangential |
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