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PRONUNCIATION OF DIGRESSIVELY

digressively  [daɪˈɡresɪvlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIGRESSIVELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Digressively is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES DIGRESSIVELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of digressively in the English dictionary

The definition of digressively in the dictionary is in a digressive manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIGRESSIVELY


aggressively
əˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
caressively
kəˈresɪvlɪ
comprehensively
ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪvlɪ
crescively
ˈkresɪvlɪ
defensively
dɪˈfɛnsɪvlɪ
depressively
dɪˈpresɪvlɪ
excessively
ɪkˈsesɪvlɪ
exclusively
ɪkˈskluːsɪvlɪ
expansively
ɪkˈspænsɪvlɪ
expressively
ɪkˈspresɪvlɪ
extensively
ɪkˈstɛnsɪvlɪ
impressively
ɪmˈprɛsɪvlɪ
inexpressively
ˌɪnɪksˈpresɪvlɪ
intensively
ɪnˈtɛnsɪvlɪ
massively
ˈmæsɪvlɪ
passively
ˈpæsɪvlɪ
progressively
prəˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
recessively
rɪˈsesɪvlɪ
successively
səkˈsɛsɪvlɪ
unprogressively
ˌʌnprəˈɡresɪvlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIGRESSIVELY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIGRESSIVELY

actively
alternatively
collaboratively
collectively
comparatively
competitively
creatively
cumulatively
effectively
inductively
lively
lovely
negatively
objectively
positively
qualitatively
quantitatively
relatively
respectively
selectively
tentatively

Synonyms and antonyms of digressively in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «digressively» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIGRESSIVELY

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

Translator English - Chinese

digressively
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

digressively
570 millions of speakers

English

digressively
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

digressively
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

digressively
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

digressively
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

digressively
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

digressively
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dégressive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Secara mendadak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

degressiv
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

digressively
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

digressively
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Digressively
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

digressively
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

digressively
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Digressively
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

digressively
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

decrescenti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

digressively
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

digressively
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

digressively
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φθίνοντος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

digressively
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

digressively
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

digressively
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of digressively

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGRESSIVELY»

The term «digressively» is normally little used and occupies the 139.473 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGRESSIVELY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «digressively» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «digressively» 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 digressively

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIGRESSIVELY»

Discover the use of digressively in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to digressively and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Loiterature
... also (partially) separable from it and able to affect (in some degree) its working. In other words, because we talking dogs are its agents as well as its subjects, culture is bound to have a digressive structure; and it reproduces digressively, ...
Ross Chambers, 1999
2
Production Economics: The Basic Theory of Production ...
Example C outlines a digressively increasing shape with positive and diminishing marginal returns corresponding to the area between 90 and 130 kg N in Fig. 2.1. Finally, example D outlines a progressively diminishing shape with negative ...
Svend Rasmussen, 2012
3
The European Social Dialogue Under Articles 138 and 139 of ...
Representation of citizens shall be digressively proportional, with a minimum threshold of six members per Member State. No Member State shall be allocated more than ninety-six seats.895 In Lisbon, the following institutional changes were  ...
Christian Welz, 2008
4
The Smoking Diaries
The Smoking Diaries was the result, in which one of Britain's most beloved and original writers reflected on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters, shame, adultery, ...
Simon Gray, 2013
5
The Last Cigarette
Autobiographies and biographies.
Simon Gray, 2008
6
Schleiermacher's Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato
... even the conditions under which such a life is possible are laid down. And if questions, not falling within the limits of the problem, and referring only to the great image of the perfect Republic, interwoven with the whole work, are digressively ...
Friedrich Schleiermacher, 1836
7
The Student's Manual of English Literature. A History of ...
He has the same pictorial fancy, the same voluptuous and languishing harmony; but if he can in any respect be likened to Shakspeare, it is firstly in the vividness of intellect which leads him to follow, digressively, the numberless Secondary ...
Thomas Budd SHAW, William Smith, 1864
8
Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative
more powerful position than the would-be blackmailer, who speaks digressively and in a nonstandard dialect: "I brought'em [the letters] to you to sell, because I ain't got no other way of raising money. ... I seen you talking to Mr. Rosedale on ...
David Herman, 2004
9
Take it Or Leave it: An Exaggerated Second-hand Tale to be ...
... borrowed perhaps but the STORY (in spite of all) progresses (HERE in the middle) since all fiction is told digressively tale retold (used words) but the story ( second-hand) moves along without efforts word (after) word by a mere accumulation ...
Raymond Federman, 1997
10
The Pleasing Hour
They broke up with their boyfriends back home, succinctly on the phone, digressively through the mail. They sneaked men back to their maids' rooms on the top floor of their buildings, then couldn't get rid of them. They spoke French better and ...
Lily King, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIGRESSIVELY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term digressively is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Looking back on the benefits of a liberal arts education
Ah, but I elaborate digressively. Back to the shaky point that once Guttenburg unleashed the printing press on an unsuspecting public, literacy ... «AMERICAblog, May 15»
2
Paul Muldoon: One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
The poem's 27 stanzas rhyme, mirror-wise, first stanza with last, second with second-last and so, digressively, on. Sometimes it's brilliant ... «Irish Times, Jan 15»
3
Listen Up Philip
... that comes across as boorish intrusion—and it's oddly disjointed, wandering off digressively into the life of Moss' character as a perhaps tacit ... «Willamette Week, Oct 14»
4
The Page Is Truth: The “Small Lives” of Pierre Michon
His sentences, which often run on for pages, dart digressively about, much like brushstrokes applied to a canvas, gradually resolving their parts ... «New Yorker, Dec 13»
5
Will Self: Intermittent fasting can do things to your head
You'll forgive me if I wander digressively in this week's column, won't you? Lack of nourishment can do things to your head . . . Anyway, I always ... «New Statesman, Sep 13»
6
A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories by Robert Walser – review
One line that pulled me up abruptly came in the middle of the final piece, "Hans", as the eponymous character's room is, digressively, ... «The Guardian, Sep 13»
7
London stabbing defendant: 'I'm a soldier'
He also talked digressively about buying margarine in a supermarket before his video feed was temporarily cut off by officials. But he later ... «Yahoo! News, Jun 13»
8
The Essayification of Everything
This mode is defined by contingency and trying things out digressively, following this or that forking path, feeling around life without a specific ... «New York Times, May 13»
9
How Did Susan Miller Become the Go-To Astrologer for the New …
The way that Miller speaks — digressively and in volumes — is also the way that she writes. A typical AstrologyZone horoscope runs 2,500 ... «New York Magazine, Feb 13»
10
James Wood Gets Personal
... to do: a long, passionate onrush, formally controlled and joyously messy, propulsive but digressively self-interrupted, attired but dishevelled, ... «Daily Beast, Dec 12»

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