| Main Entry: | tangential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | digressing |
Synonyms: |
digressive, divergent, diverging, extraneous, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | peripheral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | minor, outside |
Synonyms: |
beside the point, borderline, exterior, external, incidental, inessential, irrelevant, minor, outer, outermost, perimetric, secondary, superficial, surface, tangential, unimportant |
Antonyms: |
central, crucial, internal, major |
| Main Entry: | tangent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | touching |
Synonyms: |
contiguous, tangential |
| 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: | parenthetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | digressive |
Synonyms: |
departing, detouring, differing, discursive, excursive, parenthetical, rambling, tangential |