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Meaning of "digressionary" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DIGRESSIONARY

digressionary  [daɪˈɡrɛʃənərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIGRESSIONARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Digressionary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DIGRESSIONARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of digressionary in the English dictionary

The definition of digressionary in the dictionary is being or functioning as a digression.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIGRESSIONARY


cautionary
ˈkɔːʃənərɪ
cessionary
ˈsɛʃənərɪ
concessionary
kənˈsɛʃənərɪ
confectionary
kənˈfɛkʃənərɪ
confectionery
kənˈfɛkʃənərɪ
dictionary
ˈdɪkʃənərɪ
discretionary
dɪˈskrɛʃənərɪ
evolutionary
ˌiːvəˈluːʃənərɪ
expansionary
ɪkˈspænʃənərɪ
expeditionary
ˌɛkspɪˈdɪʃənərɪ
indiscretionary
ˌɪndɪsˈkrɛʃənərɪ
missionary
ˈmɪʃənərɪ
possessionary
pəˈzɛʃənərɪ
precautionary
prɪˈkɔːʃənərɪ
probationary
prəˈbeɪʃənərɪ
processionary
prəˈsɛʃənərɪ
recessionary
rɪˈsɛʃənərɪ
revolutionary
ˌrɛvəˈluːʃənərɪ
stationary
ˈsteɪʃənərɪ
stationery
ˈsteɪʃənərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIGRESSIONARY

dignitaries
dignitary
dignities
dignity
digonal
digoneutic
digoneutism
digoxin
digraph
digraphic
digraphically
digress
digresser
digression
digressional
digressive
digressively
digressiveness
digs
digynian

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIGRESSIONARY

accretionary
cardiopulmonary
contractionary
coronary
counter-revolutionary
data dictionary
deflationary
diversionary
exclusionary
functionary
geostationary
illusionary
inflationary
lectionary
nonstationary
ordinary
post-Revolutionary
pulmonary
reversionary
revisionary
visionary

Synonyms and antonyms of digressionary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «digressionary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIGRESSIONARY

Find out the translation of digressionary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of digressionary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «digressionary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

digressionary
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

digresión
570 millions of speakers

English

digressionary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

digressionary
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

digressionary
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

digressionary
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

digressionary
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

digressionary
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

digressionary
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Digressionary
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

digressionary
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

digressionary
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

변두리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Digressionary
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

digressionary
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

digressionary
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विषयांतर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

digressionary
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

digressionary
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

digressionary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

digressionary
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

digressionary
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

digressionary
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

digressionary
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

digressionary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

digressionary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of digressionary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGRESSIONARY»

The term «digressionary» is used very little and occupies the 161.865 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGRESSIONARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «digressionary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «digressionary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about digressionary

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIGRESSIONARY»

Discover the use of digressionary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to digressionary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st ...
236 N E W P L A Y W R I T I N G S T R A T E G I E S DIGRESSIONARY MONOLOGUE One outcome of the free association exercise may be the digressionary monologue. The digressionary monologue is often formatted as a direct address to ...
Paul C. Castagno, 2011
2
The Theory of Probability: Explorations and Applications
Interleaved with these she will find a smorgasbord of applications and digressionary material scattered liberally through the text; these may generally be sampled in any order; succeeding theory does not, as a general rule, build upon these.
Santosh S. Venkatesh, 2012
3
Nineteenth Century Russian Literature: Studies of Ten ...
Most important is the surrealistic irony with which the narrator deals with the grotesque world of officialdom — in the digressionary opening, or in the account of how intrepid policemen were ordered to take the ghost dead or alive.
John Lister Illingworth Fennell, 1976
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Rousseau's Republican Romance
From a rhetorical perspective this passage, and indeed, the entire digressionary tale, constitutes a preterition, or a mode of inclusion that works byway of an insistence on omission.25 Rousseau “shall not” tell, neither will he paint nor portray, ...
Elizabeth Rose Wingrove, 2000
5
Family Violence and Men of Color: Healing the Wounded Male ...
... Digressionary Scale (see Psychocultural Digressionary Scale) sexual moderation, ancient writings on, 46–47 Cihuacoati, 45 Círculo de hombres, 79 oral teachings, careful introduction of, 149–150 postcolonial versus Western cosmology,.
Ricardo Carrillo, PhD PhD, Jerry Tello MS, 2008
6
Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
The digressionary freedom of his poem brings about unexpected intersections, not only between characters and events but also between passions. Through this digressionary style Ariosto succeeds in dispossessing the human age of its ...
Robert Pogue Harrison, 2009
7
Ciris: A Poem Attributed to Vergil
'For', says the poet (64), 'there are indeed other versions' - and his digressionary doctrina is astutely contrived, (patiuntur credere (62) now refers generally back to 54-61.) A few further thoughts: I already consider istorum and erroribus (or ...
R. O. A. M. Lyne, Ciris, 2004
8
Ezra-Nehemiah
In repetitive resumptions the thread of an interrupted narrative is picked up by repeating the last clause prior to the interruption, though generally with some textual variation, thus indicating the digressionary character of the interruption. Talmon ...
Mark A. Throntveit, 2012
9
A Companion to Latin American Literature
La Christiada is a devotional poem which consciously diverts attention away from action understood in a canonic epic sense to digressionary material which leads to contemplation and which includes the psychological (in the form of the ...
Stephen M. Hart, 2007
10
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2009: Kierkegaard's Concept of ...
This methodological truth of irony – that it covers over its digressionary nature at the very moment of the disclosure of the digression – makes it both the best and the worst bedfellow for the seductive power of aesthetic ideology.2 Along with the  ...
Niels Ja Rgen Cappela Rn, Hermann Deuser, K. Brian Söderquist, 2009

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIGRESSIONARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term digressionary is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Slavoj Žižek Gives Lecture At NYU On The Merits Of Syriza And The …
He then proceeded to talk on many digressionary topics including, but not limited to, the new form of the white man's burden (taking the blame ... «NYU Local, Apr 15»
2
Wisconsin's own Orson Welles and David Koepp honored at UW …
“Incomplete works, multiple versions of completed works, odd digressionary forays into short formats and radio and television and commercials. «Madison.com, Jan 15»
3
The lasting consequences of buried, unspeakable horror
... reconstruction of Afghanistan, emerges slowly from a digressionary maze. There are asides on axolotls, Mercator maps, the fiction of Graham ... «New Statesman, Nov 14»
4
17 Copycat Films Spawned From Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction'
... most frequently copied across this list, and most frequently falls absolutely flat, it's the snappy, digressionary, pop-culture-obsessed dialogue ... «Indie Wire, May 14»
5
Uganda can't afford the Kill The Gays bill
I am sure that Canada is not really interested in colonising Uganda. This was a digressionary tactic and it worked. It always works when applied ... «Gay Star News, Nov 12»
6
Extremely Clever, Not Very Funny
Only the subject is quickly dropped, drowned in a sea of digressionary whimsy about soap. To be fair, Damsels in Distress is a singular ... «The Portland Mercury, Apr 12»
7
The Middle Ground #99 | Wunga Wunga Wunga Wunga
The devil, as ever, is in the details; unlike, say, Tobin's Spider-Girl or Marvel Adventures work, there's a similar digressionary humor at play with ... «Comic Book Resources, Apr 12»

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