digressive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: digressive	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for digressive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
digressive adj of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" Synonym(s): digressive, tangential (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" Synonym(s): digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Digressive \Di*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. digressif.] Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. --Johnson.