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digressive
" The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements."
Louis Dudek

Meaning of "digressive" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DIGRESSIVE

daɪˈɡrɛsɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIGRESSIVE

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

WHAT DOES DIGRESSIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of digressive in the English dictionary

The definition of digressive in the dictionary is characterized by digression or tending to digress.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIGRESSIVE

aggressive · antiprogressive · compressive · depressive · expressive · immunosuppressive · impressive · ingressive · introgressive · nonprogressive · oppressive · overaggressive · progressive · regressive · repressive · retrogressive · suppressive · transgressive · unaggressive · unprogressive

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIGRESSIVE

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIGRESSIVE

adessive · antitussive · comprehensive · concussive · dismissive · emissive · essive · excessive · inessive · massive · obsessive · passive · passive-aggressive · percussive · permissive · possessive · recessive · submissive · successive · supermassive · unimpressive

Synonyms and antonyms of digressive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DIGRESSIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «digressive» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «digressive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIGRESSIVE

Find out the translation of digressive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of digressive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «digressive» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

枝节
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

decreciente
570 millions of speakers
en

English

digressive
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

झुकनेवाला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

digressive
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

отклоняющегося
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

digressivo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অবান্তর
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

dégressif
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Menggegarkan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

degressiv
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

digressive
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

digressive
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Digressive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ra ngoài đề
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

digressive
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

निष्ठुर
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yersiz
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

digressivo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

degresywna
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

відхиляється
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

descrescător
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φθίνουσας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitweidend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avtagande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

digressive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of digressive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGRESSIVE»

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «DIGRESSIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word digressive.
1
Louis Dudek
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.
2
William Least Heat-Moon
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIGRESSIVE»

Discover the use of digressive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to digressive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Stock Car Setup Secrets: Advanced Chassis and Suspension ...
The two basic piston designs are called linear and digressive. Each type performs in a different way. While a linear shock will resist movement at a progressively higher rate and has less low speed resistance, the digressive shock offers more ...
Bob Bolles, R. C. Bolles, 2003
2
Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature
This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices thatcaptured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal ...
Anne Cotterill, 2004
3
The Life and Times of Daniel Defoe, with Remarks Digressive ...
William CHADWICK (of Arskey, Yorks.) j '57:;2'. Pl'llx W, 'hi "W" W __L $01212 Z9 [5,2069% gamb W JAZazs 6'; “' THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DANIEL DE FOE:WITH REMARKS DIGRESSIVE.
William CHADWICK (of Arskey, Yorks.), 1859
4
Language for Special Purposes: Perspectives for the New ...
And, what is more, according to Clyne the native speakers of German are writing in a more digressive style both in their German and their English texts. In this dicho- tomy of the „linear" English versus the „digressive" German style, Clyne's ...
Felix Mayer, 2001
5
The Dynamics of Narrative Form: Studies in Anglo-American ...
A fifth structural distinction can be made between non-digressive and dig-ressive forms of rnetanarration on the basis of the degree of digression from the narrated story. Although metanarrative expressions tend to result in momentary ...
John Pier, 2005
6
The Inn and the Traveller: Digressive Topographies in the ...
As this celebration of digressive fiction unfolds, a very different picture emerges of the novel's rise and development.
Will McMorran, 2002
7
Fiction and the Shape of Belief
Added to the diagram above, any one of the digressive narrations can be schematically represented as follows : I ▻ II >- III t \ A + B + C + Y + D + E + etc. f ^ a-f-b+c-f-d+e+etc. It is unnecessary and would be fruitless to try to ascertain precisely ...
Sheldon Sacks, 1967
8
Under Eastern Eyes: A Comparative Introduction to East ...
The artistic meaning and the message — 'viewpoint' — of the Polish digressive poem are completely different, however. The digressive poem, which belongs to Polish literature's mature Romanticism, reveals the artist's freedom and power ...
Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis, 2008
9
Self-reflexivity in Literature
Swift's digressive inventiveness in A Tale of a Tub is clearly a point of departure for Sterne's design of Tristram Shandy. Like the narrator of the Tale, Tristram justifies the insertion of digressions with their didactic value as showing ' learnedness' ...
Werner Huber, Martin Middeke, Hubert Zapf, 2005
10
Principles of Visual Anthropology
Digressive Search Neither programmed nor opportunistic sampling solves the problem of how to branch out beyond our personal predilections or the structural concepts of our culture. Programmed sampling is limited to preconceived ideas ...
Paul Hockings, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIGRESSIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term digressive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Film Review: 'Ant-Man' - Variety
... with his aw-shucks grin and his charming habit of telling a story in the most digressive possible fashion, he comes across as one infectiously ... «Variety, Jul 15»
2
Quinn finds the funny in race relations
Its value comes in the digressive, rueful and wry anecdotes of a Brooklyn-Irish baby boomer who came of age navigating his way through the ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
3
Boghosian: Protest is about CVS, not Hopkinton Drug
The editorial is obviously an attempt to obfuscate the issue by introducing a digressive presumption that the core reason for the protest is based ... «MetroWest Daily News, Jul 15»
4
Three books, each totally different and distinctly great
Back then, Clifton's thoughtful, digressive, and beautiful approach to exploring the show's philosophical underpinnings was a major part in my ... «A.V. Club, Jul 15»
5
Sleeper of the Week: 'A Poem Is a Naked Person'
Blank's documentary wasn't a traditional rock doc, nor was it a hagiography, but instead a digressive depiction of Russell and his process, the ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
6
Upton, Lawson, Pattinson and Lach-Newinsky display diversity in …
While Upton's — usually long — digressive poems can suffer from a little of this, they are among the better work in this genre. Taj Mahal 2, the ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
7
The Man Who Saw America
Another film, ''Me and My Brother,'' began as an adaptation of Ginsberg's poem ''Kaddish'' and then, following the familiar digressive pattern, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
8
Criticwire Classic of the Week: Hal Ashby's 'The Last Detail'
Michael Chapman's gritty cinematography, meanwhile, grounds the digressive revelry in harsh winter surroundings that seem haunted by the ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
9
London Overground by Iain Sinclair review – a triumphant odyssey
That is about all that keeps Sinclair's digressive appetites – his riffs on everything from Boris bikes to the “lodged dead” of Brompton cemetery, ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
10
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel, review: 'exhilarating and exhausting'
Like A History of Reading (1996) and The Library at Night (2008), it is digressive, strange and handsomely put together. It oscillates between ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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