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Digressive

Digressive \Di*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. digressif.] Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.
--Johnson.

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digressive

a. Marked by digression; rambling

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digressive
  1. adj. of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" [syn: tangential]

  2. (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" [syn: discursive, excursive, rambling]

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MORE ABOUT POSSESSIVE PRONOMINAL ENDINGS (plus a slightly digressive inquiry into the true nature of the combinations ly, ny, ry, ty) In the previous lesson we introduced a series of possessive pronominal endings that can be added to nouns: -nya "my", -lya "your", -lva "our" (incl.