digress
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
She always digresses when telling a story
Types & categories
- tell hypernym
Related & opposite
- digression derivation
- digression derivation
- excursive derivation
Sense 2 verb
wander from a direct or straight course
Types & categories
- deviate hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | digression |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | digression |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | excursive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | tell |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | excursion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | straggle |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | straggler |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | deviate |