ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Excursive

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Excursive is an adjective meaning Tending to digress.

Meaning

Tending to digress.

More Meanings

  1. Tending to go out.

Example Sentences

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.
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.
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.
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;[…]

Synonyms for excursive

Depending on context, synonyms include rambling, discursive, digressive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include digressive, discursive, rambling, diffusive, talkative, expulsive.

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