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digressional

digressional adjective: pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.

Adjective

digressional (comparative more digressional, superlative most digressional)

  1. Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
    • Milton has judiciously avoided Fletcher's digressional ornaments1785, Thomas Warton, Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin by John Milton

Forms of digressional

comparativemore digressional
superlativemost digressional

Origin of digressional

From digression + -al.

Questions about digressional

What does digressional mean?
Digressional means pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
What part of speech is digressional?
Digressional is an adjective.

Words near digressional in the dictionary

  1. digressest
  2. digresseth
  3. digressing
  4. digressingly
  5. digression
  6. digressional
  7. digressionary
  8. digressions
  9. digressive
  10. digressively
  11. digressiveness

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