digressive
UK/daɪˈɡɹɛsɪv/
digressive adjective: marked by digression; rambling.
Adjective
digressive (comparative more digressive, superlative most digressive)
- Marked by digression; rambling
- Being a digression; off-topic
- I continue to be amused and amazed by the astonishing twaddle that's continually written about the so-called Lavendar ^([sic]) or Violet Quill Club. The latest example of this is an unmotivated, digressive swipe at the Violet Quill (VQ) in T.R. Witomiski's reply letter to various critics in GCN.1987 April 25, Felice Picano, “The Truth About "Violet Quill"”, in Gay Community News, page 4
digressive meaning in Bengali and Tagalog
digressive in Bengali
- অপ্রাসঙ্গিকতা দ্বারা চিহ্নিত, অসংলগ্ন, বিষয়বহির্ভূত
digressive in Tagalog
- marked by digression; rambling
- maliklik
Forms of digressive
| comparative | more digressive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most digressive |
Origin of digressive
From digress + -ive.
Words formed from digressive
Words that rhyme with digressive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- recessive
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
- future progressive
Questions about digressive
- What does digressive mean?
- Digressive means marked by digression; rambling.
- What is digressive in Bengali?
- Digressive in Bengali is অপ্রাসঙ্গিকতা দ্বারা চিহ্নিত, অসংলগ্ন, বিষয়বহির্ভূত. See Digressive meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is digressive?
- Digressive is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce digressive?
- Digressive is pronounced /daɪˈɡɹɛsɪv/ (UK).
Words near digressive in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: digressive (page history and authors); digressive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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