discursive
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discursive (comparative more discursive, superlative most discursive)
- (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
- This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
- (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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discursive
- vocative masculine singular of discursivus
