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Thesaurus: discursive

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.

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  1. a. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
  2. a. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
  3. adj. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
  4. adj. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
  5. j:100 s proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition s (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects