adjective
digressing from subject to subject.
students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose
rambling,digressive,meandering,wandering,maundering,diffuse,long,lengthy,circuitous,roundabout,circumlocutory,periphrastic,verbose,long-winded,prolix,wordy,waffly,pleonastic,logorrhoeic,ambagious
noun
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing.
let’s return to the main topic after that brief digression
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noun
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing.
let’s return to the main topic after that brief digression
deviation,detour,diversion,departure,excursus,aside,incidental remark,footnote,parenthesis,deviation from the subject,straying from the topic,straying from the point,going off at a tangent,getting sidetracked,losing one’s thread,divergence,straying,drifting,rambling,wandering,meandering,maundering,obiter dictum,excursion,apostrophe,divagation
verb
form or cause to form a curve.
her mouth curved in a smile
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adjective
(of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way.
the canal followed a circuitous route
roundabout,indirect,winding,meandering,serpentine,tortuous,twisting,anfractuous,oblique,circumlocutory,periphrastic,discursive,digressive,long-winded,evasive,circumlocutionary,ambagious
adjective
Sinuous or circuitous.
the line of gold extends and becomes anfractuous
twisting,winding,curving,curvy,bending,sinuous,undulating,coiling,looping,meandering,serpentine,snaking,snaky,zigzag,convoluted,spiralling,twisty,circuitous,rambling,wandering,indirect,deviating,devious,labyrinthine,mazy
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