discursive
Meaning of discursive
- digressing from subject to subject.
students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose
- relating to discourse or modes of discourse.
the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another
- proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition.
late 16th century: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro’, from the verb discurrere (see discourse).
Information about discursive
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of discursive
dis-cur-sive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- discursive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
discursive synonyms
Meaning dianoetic:
Meaning digressive:
digressive, excursive, rambling
Meaning proceeding in a convoluted or undirected fashion:
Meaning travelling aimlessly from place to place; itinerant:
Meaning talk in a rambling manner:
Meaning lacking clarity or conciseness:
Meaning measuring a great distance from end to end:
Meaning (especially in reference to time) of considerable or unusual length, especially so as to be tedious:
Meaning (of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way:
Meaning not saying what is meant clearly and directly; circumlocutory:
Meaning using many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive; long-winded:
Meaning (of speech or writing) indirect and circumlocutory:
Meaning using or expressed in more words than are needed:
Meaning (of speech or writing) using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy:
Meaning using or expressed in rather too many words:
discursive antonyms
Meaning giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive:
Words that rhyme with discursive
abrasive, airbrasive, appeasive, assuasive, corrasive, defeasive, dissuasive, evasive, interpervasive, invasive, nonabrasive, nonevasive, noninvasive, nonpersuasive, occasive, persuasive, pervasive, preinvasive, prepersuasive, suasive, ultrapersuasive, unabrasive, unassuasive, unevasive, uninvasive, unpersuasive, unpervasive, unpleasive, adhesive, cohesive, cresive, equicohesive, inadhesive, incohesive, inhesive, nonadhesive, noncohesive, overaggresive, semiadhesive, succesive, suppresive, unadhesive, uncohesive, advisive, appraisive, cicatrisive, collisive, decisive, derisive, divisive