Definitions for excursive

excursive ex·cur·sive

Spelling: [ik-skur-siv]
IPA: /ɪkˈskɜr sɪv/

Excursive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in excursive (ceeirsuvx).

Definitions for excursive

adjective

  1. given to making excursions in speech, thought, etc.; wandering; digressive.
  2. of the nature of such excursions; rambling; desultory:

Origin of excursive

1665-75; Latin excurs(us) (see excursus) + -ive

Examples for excursive

Another most important corollary of this excursive theory must just be mentioned here.

Endowed, probably, with but slender imagination, he found little charm or flavor in excursive abstractions.

This excursive disposition does not narrow his enjoyment of what is best in town life.

This hint, here thrown out as an additional argument for the excursive theory, will fall to be developed later on.

But the argument is one of too grave, too intricate, and excursive a character, to be attempted here.

At the concluding word, Mrs. Chump was no longer sustained by her excursive fancy.

With him she would have the free and useful, the amusing and excursive life of an American woman married to a man of wealth.

The great English writers have written with a free hand, prolific, excursive, diffuse.

This may be a typographic error for either exclusive or excursive.

How much of consciousness, if any, may be felt at the point where the excursive phantasm is seen, we cannot say.

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