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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects;
- Example: "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"
- Example: "a rambling discursive book"
- Example: "his excursive remarks"
- Example: "a rambling speech about this and that"
[syn: digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Excursive \Ex*cur"sive\, a.
   Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as,
   an excursive fancy.
   [1913 Webster]

         The course of excursive . . . understandings. --I.
                                                  Taylor.
   -- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness,, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

excursive
    adj 1: (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the
           main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly
           digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions
           among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his
           excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and
           that" [syn: digressive, discursive, excursive,
           rambling]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "excursive":
   O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand,
   backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional,
   departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory,
   devious, digressive, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic,
   errant, erratic, helical, indirect, labyrinthine, left-handed,
   loose, maundering, mazy, meandering, oblique, orbital,
   out-of-the-way, planetary, rambling, rotary, round, roundabout,
   roving, serpentine, shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral,
   snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, undirected,
   vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, zigzag