EXCURSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excursive mean? 

• EXCURSIVE (adjective)
  The adjective EXCURSIVE has 1 sense:

1. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects

  Familiarity information: EXCURSIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCURSIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects

Synonyms:

digressive; discursive; excursive; rambling

Context example:

a rambling speech about this and that

Similar:

indirect (extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action)

 Context examples 

In one of these excursive glances she perceived among a group of young men, the very he, who had given them a lecture on toothpick-cases at Gray's.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)