| Main Entry: | digressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending to depart from point |
Synonyms: |
excursive, rambling, tangential |
| Main Entry: | diffuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy |
Synonyms: |
circumlocutory, copious, diffusive, digressive, discursive, dull, exuberant, lavish, lengthy, long, long-winded, loose, meandering, palaverous, profuse, prolix, rambling, random, redundant, vague, verbose, waffling, windy |
Antonyms: |
abbreviated, abridged, brief, short, succinct |
| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
Synonyms: |
deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| Main Entry: | episodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intermittent; composed of several tales |
Synonyms: |
anecdotal, digressive, disconnected, discursive, disjointed, incidental, irregular, occasional, picaresque, rambling, roundabout, segmented, soap opera, sporadic, wandering |
Antonyms: |
connected, lasting, permanent, regular, unbroken |
| Main Entry: | rambling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disconnected, wordy |
Synonyms: |
circuitous, confused, desultory, diffuse, digressive, discursive, disjointed, incoherent, incongruous, irregular, long-winded, periphrastic, prolix |
Antonyms: |
connected, direct, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | excursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discursive |
Synonyms: |
desultory, digressive, indirect, rambling, verbose |
| Main Entry: | tangential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | digressing |
Synonyms: |
digressive, divergent, diverging, extraneous, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | roving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving around |
Synonyms: |
ambulatory, arrant, desultory, digressive, discursive, itinerant, migratory, mobile, nomadic, peregrine, peripatetic, roaming, vagrant, wandering |
| 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 |