Definitions for digressive

digressive di·gres·sive

Spelling: [dih-gres-iv, dahy-]
IPA: /dɪˈgrɛs ɪv, daɪ-/

Digressive is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in digressive (deegiirssv).

Definitions for digressive

adjective

  1. tending to digress; departing from the main subject.

Origin of digressive

From the Latin word dīgressīvus, dating back to 1605-15. See digress, -ive

Examples for digressive

A story should be progressive, not digressive and episodical.

Isabel had not been so digressive and withholding as he had thought.

He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style.

I was simply voluble and digressive—a natural incident of elation.

In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too,—and at the same time.

She was not a very attentive listener to honest Johns talk, profuse and digressive as that was.

These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them.

Exasperating as Crabbe's style sometimes is, he seldom bores—never indeed except in his rare passages of digressive reflection.

It is in this incidental and digressive way that we get the description of the Gospel in i. 18-ii.

A rule which, strictly speaking, is not outraged by the digressive exclamations of Camons.

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