excursive
/ɪkˈskəːsɪv
/ /ɛkˈskəːsɪv/adjective formal
Tending to deviate from a course or activity; digressive.
Derivatives
excursively
excursiveness
Origin
Late 17th century: from Latin excurs- 'digressed, run out' (from the verb excurrere) + -ive, perhaps influenced by discursive.
Rhymes
- pitch kettle
- pitch-kettled
- pitch knot
- pitch length
- pitch-like
- pitch line
- pitchman
- pitch mark
- pitch meter
- pitch-notation
- pitch note
- pitch of the ball
- pitch-oil
- pitch opal
- pitchout
- pitch-penny
- pitch-perfect
- pitch phoneme
- pitch pine
- pitch pipe
- pitch-plaster
- pitch point
- pitchpole
- pitch polisher
- pitch pot