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| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
| Synonyms: | deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
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| Main Entry: | comprehensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclusive |
| Synonyms: | absolute, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, catholic, compendious, complete, discursive, encyclopedic, exhaustive, expansive, extensive, far-reaching, full, general, global, infinite, overall, sweeping, thorough, umbrella, whole, wide, widespread, across the board, all-embracing, comprising, containing, encircling, in depth, lock stock and barrel, of great scope, synoptic, the big picture, the whole shebang, the works, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | exclusive, particular, selective, specific, incomprehensive |
| Main Entry: | encyclopedic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, broad, catholic, complete, discursive, exhaustive, extensive, general, thorough, universal, vast, widespread, all-embracing, all-encompassing, thorough-going, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | brief, incomplete, summary, uncomprehensive |
| Main Entry: | episodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intermittent; composed of several tales |
| Synonyms: | anecdotal, digressive, disconnected, discursive, disjointed, incidental, irregular, occasional, rambling, roundabout, soap opera*, sporadic, wandering, picaresque, segmented |
| Antonyms: | connected, lasting, permanent, regular, unbroken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | explanatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | descriptive |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, analytical, critical, demonstrative, discursive, expository, graphic, illustrative, informative, instructive, summary, supplementary, annotative, declarative, diagrammatic, elucidatory, enlightening, exegetic, exegetical, explicative, expositional, guiding, hermeneutic, illuminative, informing, interpretive, justifying |
| Antonyms: | confusing, mysterious, obscure, perplexing, puzzling, vague |
| Main Entry: | indirect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roundabout; unintended |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long-winded*, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, secondary, serpentine*, sinister, sinuous, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag, circumlocutory, long way home, long-drawn-out, periphrastic, sidelong, snaking, sneaking, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, straightforward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roundabout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, circuitous, circular, collateral, deviating, devious, discursive, evasive, meandering, oblique, tortuous, circumlocutory, obliquitous, periphrastic, taking the long way |
| Antonyms: | direct, honest, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | wordy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, chatty*, diffuse, discursive, flatulent, gabby*, garrulous, inflated, lengthy, long-winded, loquacious, prolix, rambling, redundant, rhetorical, tedious, turgid, verbose, voluble, windy*, palaverous, pleonastic |
| Antonyms: | concise, untalkative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rambling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disconnected, wordy |
| Synonyms: | circuitous, confused, desultory, diffuse, digressive, discursive, disjointed, incoherent, incongruous, irregular, long-winded, prolix, periphrastic |
| Antonyms: | connected, direct, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, cryptic, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, excursive, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, meandering, mixed, muddled, obscure, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, sinuous, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding, Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, bewildering, crabbed, entangled, mazy, mingled, paradoxical, round-about, snarled |
| 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: | diffuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy |
| Synonyms: | copious, digressive, discursive, dull, exuberant, lavish, lengthy, long, long-winded, loose, meandering, profuse, prolix, rambling, random, redundant, vague, verbose, windy, circumlocutory, diffusive, palaverous, waffling |
| Antonyms: | brief, short, succinct, abbreviated, abridged |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | aberration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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aberrant, abnormal, abnormous, absonant, ambagious, amorphous, amphibious, androgynal, androgynous, anomalistic, anomalous, arbitrary, azygous, circuitous, crablike, curious, denaturalized, desultory, deviating, devious, diffluent, discursive, eccentric, egregious, epicene, errabund, errant, erratic, exceptional, exclusive, excursive, exotic, extraordinary, fantastic, farblondzhet, grotesque, heteroclite, heterogeneous, hybrid, hypotypic, indirect, informal, irregular, lawless, misplaced, mongrel, monstrous, non-union, nondescript, noteworthy, odd, original, outlandish, peculiar, preternatural, quaint, qualified, queer, rambling, rare, remarkable, singular, strange, stray, unaccountable, unaccustomed, uncommon, unconformable, unconventional, uncustomary, undescribed, undirected, unexampled, unusual, unwonted, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wonderful, zigzag
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| Main Entry: | choice |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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choice, choosing, chosen, conclusive, deligible, determinate, discoursive, discretional, discursive, disposed, doxastic, eclectic, half-minded, homodox, in the loop, judging, judicious, multivolent, optional, peremptory, perficiently, predisposed, preferential, snap, unbiased
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| Main Entry: | conversation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | philosophy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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sound, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, analytic, antiestablishment, biconditional, card, circular, corporeal, discursive, domestic, empirical, heuristic, immanent, indisputable, invalid, irrefragable, irrefutable, maieutic, middle, partisan, poetic, political, rational, reactionary, transeunt, ultraconservative, undemocratic, valid, vice versa, zetetic
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| Main Entry: | prolixity |
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ambagious, circumlocutory, copious, diffuse, digressive, discursive, episodic, excursive, exuberant, flatulent, frothy, largiloquent, lengthy, long, long, long drawn out, longsome, maundering, periphrastic, pleonastic, profuse, prolix, prosing, protracted, rambling, roundabout, spun out, verbose, wordy
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| Main Entry: | rationale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Aristotelian, analytical, argumentative, attributable, attributed, automorphic, biconditional, cogent, cognitive, coherent, controversial, controvertible, cumulative, cut-and-dried, debatable, definitive, derivable from, dialectic, dianoetic, didactic, discursive, discursory, disputatious, due to, epistemic, esemplastic, eudemonistic, facultative, forensic, hebamic, implausible, irrelevant, logical, lucid, moot, noetic, owing to, paralogic, perspicacious, perspicuous, polemical, putative, rational, rationalistic, reasoning, referable, referrible, relevant, specious, synthetic, tenable, thought-out, unilateral, viable, watertight, well-founded, well-grounded, well-taken
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| Main Entry: | traveling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1, adjective2 |
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traveling, ambulatory, bumper, circumforaneous, discursive, gadding, itinerant, jeepable, locomotive, migratory, mundivagant, noctivagant, nomadic, peripatetic, rambling, round, solivagant, touristy, travel, vagrant, viable, viatic, wayfaring, wayworn
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