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digressive

/dih-gres-iv, dahy-/US // dɪˈgrɛs ɪv, daɪ- //UK // (daɪˈɡrɛsɪv) //

离经叛道,离题,渐进式,渐进式的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending to digress; departing from the main subject.

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Examples

  • He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style.

  • It is in this incidental and digressive way that we get the description of the Gospel in i. 18-ii.

  • They were simply digressive, which was to be expected, as elation befogs one's "goal idea."

  • Several chapters, that seem digressive in an historical light, are to be defended by this consideration.

  • Isabel had not been so digressive and withholding as he had thought.

  • Instances might be multiplied of this humorous self-abandonment; but we are growing digressive.