Excursive

Synonyms for "excursive" (65 found)

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discursive writingrambling prose

Collocations

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excursive analysisexcursive approachexcursive digressionexcursive proseexcursive styleexcursive writing

Inflections

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more excursivemost excursive

Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Or evening, in her starry mantle bright, Precedes the slow majestic train of night; In that still hour the mind excursive roves, A heavenly voice the listening spirit moves.

Source: wiktionary

Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.

Source: wiktionary

By such means he flattered himself that in time he should subvert her fine understanding, and, by the contamination of her hitherto unsullied mind, reduce her to a level with himself,—and this he meditated to effect by slow and gradual operations, through the medium of her imagination, which he had discovered to be warm and excursive;[…]

Source: wiktionary

Then into the quiet room came Susan Nipper and the candles; shortly afterwards, the tea, the Captain, and the excursive Mr Toots, who, as above mentioned, was frequently on the move afterwards, and passed but a restless evening.

Source: wiktionary

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