discursive
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French discursif, formed from the stem of Latin discursus and the suffix -if, and in part borrowed from Medieval Latin discursivus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Adjective
discursive (comparative more discursive, superlative most discursive)
- (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 185:
- This period had long since passed; the discursive reading, the enlightened discourse of her grandfather, had cast her mind in a different mould to the usual superstition of her country; but faith and love were only more pure and perfect in a soul too innocent not to be religious.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
- This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.
- (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
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tending to digress from the main point; rambling
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using reason and argument rather than intuition
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