discursive
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dis·cur·sive
(dĭ-skûr'sĭv) 
adj.
discursiveness dis·cur'sive·ness n.
adj.
- Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling.
- Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition.
[Medieval Latin discursīvus, from Latin discursus, running about. See discourse.]
discursively dis·cur'sive·ly adv.discursiveness dis·cur'sive·ness n.
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discursive
adjective
- Marked by or given to digression: digressive, excursive, parenthetic, parenthetical, rambling, tangential. See approach/retreat.
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discursive
adj
Definition: fluent
Antonyms: terse
adj
Definition: rambling
Antonyms: concise
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discursive
IN BRIEF: Passing from one topic to another.
She gave a discursive explanation that left them more confused.
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categories related to 'discursive'
- Notions, Ideas, and Methods - discursive: (adj) characterized by analysis
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Discursive is an adjective from the word discourse and may refer specifically to:
- Discursive psychology, a school of psychology
- Discursive democracy, any system of political decisions based on some tradeoff of consensus decision making and representative democracy
- Discursive meditation, in Christian prayer
- Discursive repetition, or Repetition (rhetorical device), the repetition of a certain type of discourse in linguistics
- Discursive handwriting, handwriting in which the individual letters are not joined up
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Discursive
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - vidtløftig, præget af sidespring, diskursiv, præget af logisk sammenhæng
Nederlands (Dutch)
onsamenhangend, (logisch) redenerend
Français (French)
adj. - discursif, décousu
Deutsch (German)
adj. - weitschweifig
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ασυνάρτητος, φλύαρος, σχοινοτενής
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - discursivo
Русский (Russian)
бессвязный, аргументированный
Español (Spanish)
adj. - divagador, deshilvanado, discursivo
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - planlös, filos. diskursiv
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
散漫的, 不得要领的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 散漫的, 不得要領的
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 어수선한, 범위가 넓은, 논증적인
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - とりとめのない, 散漫な
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) متنقل من موضوع إلى آخر ( صفه لطريقه حديث أو كتابه شخص), استطرادي
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - לא מתוכנן, מקוטע, קופץ מנושא לנושא, נוטה הצידה
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