Word Meanings - DISCURSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.
Additional info about word: DISCURSIVE
1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle. 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. Milton. -- Dis*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Dis*cur"sive*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISCURSIVE)
- Declamatory
- Loud
- noisy
- incoherent
- discursive
- loose
- inconsecutive
- grandiloquent
- rhetorical
- high-sounding
- Desultory
- Rambling
- unmethodical
- superficial
- unsettled
- erratic
- inexact
- spasmodic
- fitful
- freakish
- aberrant
- unsystematic
- cursory
- roving
- hasty
- slight
- Diffuse
- Discursive
- prolix
- verbose
- diluted
- copious
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISCURSIVE)
Related words: (words related to DISCURSIVE)
- SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - HIGH-SOUNDING
Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles. - DILUTENESS
The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - INEXACT
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate. - ROVINGLY
In a wandering manner. - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - PROLIXLY
In a prolix manner. Dryden. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - SLIGHTINGLY
In a slighting manner. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - NOTICE
1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge - RESPECTER
One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. - GRANDILOQUENT
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic. - DIFFUSE
To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and - DIFFUSED
Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n. - LOOSE
laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, - RAMBLINGLY
In a rambling manner. - LOOSEN
Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening - DILUTER
One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - CONTROVERSER
A disputant. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - DISAPPROVAL
Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment. - SCRAMBLING
Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott. - CORROVAL
A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - PROVINCIALLY
In a provincial manner. - CONTROVERSAL
1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - APPROVING
Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile. -- Ap*prov"ing*ly, adv. - IMPROVISATRICE
See IMPROVVISATRICE - DISAPPROVE
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline