digress
71excursive — adjective formal tending to digress. Derivatives excursively adverb excursiveness noun Origin C17: from L. excurs , excurrere digress, run out …
72vary — 1 * change, alter, modify Analogous words: deviate, diverge, digress, depart (see SWERVE): *transform, metamorphose, convert 2 *differ, disagree, dissent Analogous words: deviate, diverge, digress, depart (see SWERVE): *separate …
73diverge — [v1] go in different directions bend, bifurcate, branch, branch off, depart, deviate, digress, divagate, divaricate, divide, excurse, fork, part, radiate, ramble, separate, split, spread, stray, swerve, veer, wander; concepts 195,738 Ant. agree,… …
74ramble — [n] aimless walk constitutional, excursion, hike, perambulation, peregrination, roaming, roving, saunter, stroll, tour, traipse, trip, turn; concepts 151,224 ramble [v1] wander about; travel aimlessly amble, bat around*, be all over the map*,… …
75gradual — [16] Latin grādus ‘step’ has been a remarkably prolific source of English words. Beside grade [16] itself, it has contributed the derivatives gradation [16], gradient [19], gradual (from medieval Latin graduālis, literally ‘proceeding by steps’) …
76deviate — [dē′vē āt΄; ] for adj. & n. [, dē vēit] vi. deviated, deviating [< LL deviatus, pp. of deviare, to turn aside < de , from + via, road: see VIA] to turn aside (from a course, direction, standard, doctrine, etc.); diverge; digress vt. to… …
77divagation — noun 1. a message that departs from the main subject • Syn: ↑digression, ↑aside, ↑excursus, ↑parenthesis • Derivationally related forms: ↑parenthetical (for: ↑parenthesis), ↑ …
78digressively — adverb see digressive * * * digressˈively adverb • • • Main Entry: ↑digress …
79digressiveness — noun see digressive * * * digressˈiveness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑digress …
80di|verge — «duh VURJ, dy », verb, verged, verg|ing. –v.i. 1. to move or lie in different directions from the same point; branch off: »Their paths diverged at the fork in the road; he turned left, and she turned right. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I… …
