discursive

Of or concerning discourse.

Adjective

  1. Of or concerning discourse.
    • This period had long since passed; the discursive reading, the enlightened discourse of her grandfather, had cast her mind in a different mould to the usual superstition of her country; but faith and love were only more...
    • This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa. - 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago,...

    Synonyms: digressive rambling discoursive

    1. (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point.

    2. (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

      Synonyms: discoursive

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French discursif, formed from the stem of Latin discursus and the suffix -if, and in part borrowed from Medieval Latin discursivus. By surface analysis, discourse + -ive.

Forms

more discursive most discursive

Related

discourse

Derived

antidiscursive counterdiscursive cyberdiscursive discursively discursiveness discursivity interdiscursive macrodiscursive metadiscursive microdiscursive nondiscursive transdiscursive undiscursive