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Definition: Excursive |
ExcursiveAdjective1. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "excursive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: ExcursiveSynonyms: digressive (adj), discursive (adj), rambling (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deviation | Adjective: deviating; Verb: aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like. |
Diffuseness | Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Excursive |
| English words defined with "excursive": digressive, discursive ♦ rambling. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "excursive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jashtë teme (inconsequent), digresiv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отклоняващ се (devious, divergent, tangential, variant), несистемен, блуждаещ (errant, erratic, faraway, planetary, vacant, vagrant), произволен (fanciful, random, unwarranted, wanton, wildcat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bludný (errant, vagrant, wandering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kursorisch, abschweifend (digressing, digressive, discursive, excursively, vagabond, wandering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρεκβατινόσ, εκδρομικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | eltérõ (declinatory, different, discrepant, disharmonious, disparate, dissonant, distinct, variant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | digressivo (digressive, discursive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | excursiveay excursionista (holidays), divagante (discursive), digressivo (digressive). (various references) отклоняющийся (aberrant, digressive, divergent), бессистемный (methodless, planless, rat nest, systemless). (various references) digresivan (digressive). (various references) digresivo. (various references) kringströvande (errant, stray), irrande (devious, erratic). (various references) konudan sapan, gelişigüzel (at haphazard, at random, by chance, by fits and starts, casual, cursory, desultory, go-as-you-please, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, indiscriminate, promiscuous, random, scratch, scratchy), dolaşan (circulating), düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, fitful, freehand, haywire, hugger mugger, huggermugger, indigested, inordinate, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, non-uniform, out of order, out of square, out of trim, out-of-balance, patchily, patchy, ragged, rambling, snatchy, snuffy, unequal, unkempt, unsteady, untidy). (various references) що відхиля"ться (digressive), безладний (amorphous, disorderly, dropping, harum scarum, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, hurly burly, ill disposed, indiscriminate, inordinate, meandering, messy, orderless, outward, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, rambling, scrappy, shapeless, topsy turvy, tumultuary). (various references) hay nói ra ngo i đề. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "excursive": excursively, excursiveness, excursivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Excursive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: excersise, excrusive, exculsive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "excursive" (pronounced 'Ex*cur"sive'): Aborsive, Abrasive, Abusive, Accessive, Adhesive, Admissive, Aggressive, Allusive, Amusive, Animadversive, Anticonvulsive, Appeasive, Applausive, Apprehensive, Appulsive, Ascensive, Assuasive, Coextensive, Cohesive, Collisive, Collusive, Commissive, Comprehensive, Compulsive, Concessive, Conclusive, Concussive, Confusive, Congressive, Conversive, Convulsive, Corrasive, Corresponsive, Decursive, Delusive, Derisive, Descensive, Detersive, Diffusive, Dimensive, Discursive, Displosive, Dissuasive, Distensive, Divisive, Divulsive, Effusive, Elusive, Emissive, Emulsive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-r-s-u-v-x" | |
-1 letter: cervixes. | |
-2 letters: cursive, excuser, scrieve, service. | |
-3 letters: cereus, cerise, ceruse, cervix, cruise, cruxes, curies, curves, excise, excuse, recuse, reives, rescue, revise, revues, scrive, secure, sexier, vexers. | |
-4 letters: ceres, cires, cries, cruse, cures, curie, curse, curve, ecrus, execs, reive, reuse, revue, rexes, rices, rives, scree, serve, sever, sieur, sieve, siree, siver, sucre, ureic, veers, verse. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-r-s-u-v-x" | |
+2 letters: excursively. | |
+4 letters: excursiveness. | |
+5 letters: ultraexclusive. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 63 75 72 73 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- -.-. ..- .-. ... .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x c u r s i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0063 0075 0072 0073 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)399069878485758871 |
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