excursive
Meaning of excursive
adjective
tending to deviate from a course or activity; digressive.
late 17th century: from Latin excurs- ‘digressed, run out’ (from the verb excurrere ) + -ive, perhaps influenced by discursive .
Information about excursive
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of excursive
ex-cur-sive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- excursive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
excursive synonyms
Meaning digressive:
digressive, discursive, rambling
Words that rhyme with excursive
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