digressive
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
of superficial relevance if any
a digressive allusion to the day of the week
Related & opposite
- irrelevant similar to
Sense 2 adjective
(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
Related & opposite
- discursiveness derivation
- digress derivation
- indirect similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | irrelevant |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | discursiveness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | digress |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | indirect |