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Adjective digressive has 2 senses
- digressive, tangential - of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"
Antonym: relevant (indirect, via irrelevant)
- digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling - (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"
Antonym: direct (indirect, via indirect)
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