Synonyms for Discursive

Synonyms for "discursive" (148 found)

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Closest matches (30)

Adjective(7 words)

digressive rambling analytical anecdotic chunkiercritical art fielddeliberative discussion

a fortioria posterioria prioriaberrant aberrative aimless ambagious analytic backhanded brightby the waycategorical circuitous circular circumforaneous conceptive conceptual conditional deductive departing

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desultory

Noun(2 words)

classroom conversationdescanting

Strong matches (44)

deviant deviating deviative deviatory devious dialectic dialectical diffuse digressing digressive divagatory drifting encyclopedic enthymematic epagogic episodic errant erratic excursive explanatory

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flitting floating footloosefootloose and fancy-freefugitive gadding gypsy-like gypsyish helical hypothetical ideational inarticulate indirect inductive inferential intellectual intelligent

Adjective(4 words)

dialogic dianoetic excursivehistoriographic descriptor

Noun(3 words)

discoursingessay writingexpatiating

Related words (74)

knowing labyrinthine landloping long-winded loose maieutic maundering mazy meandering migrational migratory noetic nomad nomadicnot so dumbo-shaped oblique orbitalout-of-the-wayplanetary

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Verb(2 words)

maundered skirmished

Adjective(6 words)

medical historianreasonedrural sociology theorysystematicunconscious bias researchwandering

Noun(1 words)

storytelling session activity

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

4 entries

discourse propertyexpository proselinguistic featurelinguistic style

More specific

4 entries

analytic discourserambling prosereasoned argumenttangential remarks

Collocations

5 entries

discursive analysisdiscursive essaydiscursive methoddiscursive practicediscursive style

Inflections

2 entries

more discursivemost discursive

Derivations

2 entries

discursively discursiveness

similar

2 entries

indirect logical

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

There has been a discursive shift on this topic in recent years.

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What role did these discursive changes play in the revolution?

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Tom wrote me a discursive letter from prison.

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Mayor Jackson's speech was long and discursive.

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Discursive