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discursive adjective [ dɪsˈkəːsɪv ]

• digressing from subject to subject.
• "students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose"
Similar: rambling, digressive, meandering, wandering, maundering, diffuse, long, lengthy, circuitous, roundabout, circumlocutory, periphrastic, verbose, long-winded, prolix, wordy, waffly, pleonastic, logorrhoeic, ambagious,
Opposite: concise,
• relating to discourse or modes of discourse.
• "the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another"
• proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition.
Origin: late 16th century: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro’, from the verb discurrere (see discourse).


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