discursive

discursive is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
2. adjective. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
3. 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"

   "a rambling discursive book"

   Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling

4. adjective. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition

   Synonyms: dianoetic

Synonyms

digressive, excursive, rambling, dianoetic

Common word forms

discursively, discursiveness

Words from these letters

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