| Main Entry: | excursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discursive |
Synonyms: |
desultory, digressive, indirect, rambling, verbose |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand |
Synonyms: |
Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, abstruse, bewildering, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cryptic, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, entangled, excursive, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mingled, mixed, muddled, obscure, paradoxical, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, round-about, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
Antonyms: |
apparent, clear, direct, discernible, easy, evident, obvious, plain |
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked; indirect |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, bending, circuitous, confounding, confusing, curving, detouring, deviating, digressing, digressory, diverting, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuous, misleading, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, remote, removed, roundabout, serpentine, straying, tortuous, twisting, wandering |
Antonyms: |
direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
Synonyms: |
deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| Main Entry: | deviating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | divergent |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, aberrative, circuitous, devious, excursional, excursionary, excursive, heteroclite, obliquitous, parenthetical, serpentine, straying, tangent, tangential, tortuous |
| Main Entry: | digressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending to depart from point |
Synonyms: |
excursive, rambling, tangential |
| Main Entry: | wandering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itinerant |
Synonyms: |
deviating, devious, digressive, drifting, errant, erratic, excursive, landloping, meandering, migrant, migratory, nomadic, planetary, rambling, roaming, roving, straying, traveling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wayfaring |
| Main Entry: | parenthetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | digressive |
Synonyms: |
departing, detouring, differing, discursive, excursive, parenthetical, rambling, tangential |