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tangential

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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
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