Usually means: Relating to discourse or communication.
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  1. discursive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. discursive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discursive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discursive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discursive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discursive, discursive: Wordnik
  7. discursive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. discursive: Wiktionary
  9. discursive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discursive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discursive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Discursive, discursive: Dictionary.com
  13. discursive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Discursive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Discursive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. discursive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. discursive: Rhymezone
  18. Discursive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. discursive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. discursive: Free Dictionary
  21. discursive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. discursive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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▸ adjective:  (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
▸ adjective:  (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

Similar:
digressive, excursive, logical, indirect, dianoetic, rambling, winding, rambly, alieniloquent, ramblesome, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, point, pithy

Types:
narrative, argumentative, descriptive, expository, persuasive, more...

Phrases:
discursive reasoning, discursive repetition, Discursive psychology, discursive thinking, capacity for discursive thinking, more...
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Similar:
digressive, excursive, logical, indirect, dianoetic, rambling, winding, rambly, alieniloquent, ramblesome, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, point, pithy

Types:
narrative, argumentative, descriptive, expository, persuasive, more...

Phrases:
discursive reasoning, discursive repetition, Discursive psychology, discursive thinking, capacity for discursive thinking, discursive instance, more...



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