- Types Of Speech
- You can use discursive as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Discursive
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 10 letters with the letters c, d, e, i, r, s, u, and v, 6 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ur. Discursive starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters d, di, dis, disc, discu, and the ending characters are e, ve, ive, sive, rsive, ..
- Definition
- (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women''s fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling
- Origin/Roots
- Middle French
- Compound Words
- A compound word, discursive has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are dis, and cursive.
- School Grade
- Discursive is set as a sat word that starts with d, ends with e, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 10 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Discursive in Pig Latin is said as "iscursiveday or iscursivedway".
- Unigram
- d | i | s | c | u | r | s | i | v | e
- Bigram
- di | is | sc | cu | ur | rs | si | iv | ve
- Trigram
- dis | isc | scu | cur | urs | rsi | siv | ive
- Quadrigram
- disc | iscu | scur | curs | ursi | rsiv | sive
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects;
"amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things";
"a rambling discursive book";
"his excursive remarks";
"a rambling - proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abdominal External Oblique Muscle | |
| Aberrant | one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group |
| Aberrative | |
| Adriftp | |
| Afloatp | |
| Aimless | aimlessly drifting |
| Alley Cat | |
| Ambagious | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression" "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meaning |
| Analytic | of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience "`all spinsters are unmarried'' is an analytic proposition" |
| Analytical | of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience "`all spinsters are unmarried'' is an analytic proposition" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Discursive
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Discursive | (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women''s fashions among other things" "a rambling discursive book" "his excursive remarks" "a rambling |
View English words with the unique letters used in discursive. Words With The Letters Cdeirsuv
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Indirect | not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "must take an indirect couse in sailing" |
Discursive Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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