discursive 音标拼音: [dɪsk'ɚsɪv]
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discursive adj 1 :
proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition [
synonym : {
dianoetic }, {
discursive }]
2 : (
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 :
{
digressive }, {
discursive }, {
excursive }, {
rambling }]
Discursive \
Dis *
cur "
sive \,
a . [
Cf .
F .
discursif .
See {
Discourse },
and cf . {
Discoursive }.]
1 .
Passing from one thing to another ;
ranging over a wide field ;
roving ;
digressive ;
desultory . "
Discursive notices ." --
De Quincey .
[
1913 Webster ]
The power he [
Shakespeare ]
delights to show is not intense ,
but discursive . --
Hazlitt .
[
1913 Webster ]
A man rather tacit than discursive . --
Carlyle .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Reasoning ;
proceeding from one ground to another ,
as in reasoning ;
argumentative .
[
1913 Webster ]
Reason is her being ,
Discursive or intuitive . --
Milton .
-- {
Dis *
cur "
sive *
ly },
adv . -- {
Dis *
cur "
sive *
ness },
n .
[
1913 Webster ]
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "
discursive ":
O -
shaped ,
a fortiori ,
a posteriori ,
a priori ,
aberrant ,
aberrative ,
aimless ,
ambagious ,
analytic ,
backhanded ,
bright ,
by the way ,
categorical ,
circuitous ,
circular ,
circumforaneous ,
conceptive ,
conceptual ,
conditional ,
deductive ,
departing ,
desultory ,
deviant ,
deviating ,
deviative ,
deviatory ,
devious ,
dialectic ,
diffuse ,
digressing ,
digressive ,
divagatory ,
drifting ,
enthymematic ,
epagogic ,
episodic ,
errant ,
erratic ,
excursive ,
flitting ,
floating ,
footloose ,
footloose and fancy -
free ,
fugitive ,
gadding ,
gypsy -
like ,
gypsyish ,
helical ,
hypothetical ,
ideational ,
indirect ,
inductive ,
inferential ,
intellectual ,
intelligent ,
knowing ,
labyrinthine ,
landloping ,
long -
winded ,
loose ,
maieutic ,
maundering ,
mazy ,
meandering ,
migrational ,
migratory ,
noetic ,
nomad ,
nomadic ,
not so dumb ,
oblique ,
orbital ,
out -
of -
the -
way ,
planetary ,
prolix ,
rambling ,
ranging ,
rational ,
reasonable ,
roaming ,
rotary ,
round ,
roundabout ,
roving ,
sane ,
sensible ,
serpentine ,
shifting ,
snaky ,
sophic ,
soritical ,
spiral ,
straggling ,
stray ,
straying ,
strolling ,
strong -
minded ,
swerving ,
syllogistic ,
synthetic ,
traipsing ,
transient ,
transitory ,
transmigratory ,
turning ,
twisting ,
understanding ,
undirected ,
vagabond ,
vagrant ,
veering ,
verbose ,
wandering ,
winding ,
windy ,
wordy ,
zigzag
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DISCURSIVE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The Latin verb discurrere meant "to run about", and from this word we get our word discursive, which often means rambling about over a wide range of topics A discursive writing style generally isn't encouraged by writing teachers
DISCURSIVE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com DISCURSIVE definition: passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling See examples of discursive used in a sentence
DISCURSIVE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary DISCURSIVE meaning: 1 involving discussion: 2 talking about or dealing with subjects that are only slightly… Learn more
DISCURSIVE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary If a style of writing is discursive, it includes a lot of facts or opinions that are not necessarily relevant
Discursive - definition of discursive by The Free Dictionary Define discursive discursive synonyms, discursive pronunciation, discursive translation, English dictionary definition of discursive adj 1 Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling
discursive adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage . . . Definition of discursive adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
discursive, adj. n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . . There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word discursive, one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
discursive - Wiktionary, the free dictionary discursive (comparative more discursive, superlative most discursive) Of or concerning discourse
discursive - WordReference. com Dictionary of English discursive dɪˈskɜːsɪv adj passing from one topic to another, usually in an unmethodical way; digressive of or relating to knowledge obtained by reason and argument rather than intuition Etymology: 16th Century: from Medieval Latin discursīvus, from Late Latin discursus discourse disˈcursively adv disˈcursiveness n
Discursive - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com The adjective discursive is often used to describe speech or writing that tends to stray from the main point, but the word can also have almost the opposite meaning