Excursive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Excursive is an adjective meaning Tending to digress.
Meaning
Tending to digress.
More Meanings
- 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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