English-Thai Dictionary

discursive

ADJ ซึ่ง อ้อมค้อม  ซึ่ง ไกล ประเด็น  disconnected cursory sueng-om-kom

 

discursively

ADV อย่าง อ้อมค้อม  อย่าง ไม่ ตรงไปตรงมา  yang-om-kom

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISCURSIVE

a.[L., supra. ] 1. Moving or roving about; desultory.
2. Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding regularly from premises to consequences; sometimes written discursive. Whether brutes have a kind of discursive faculty.

 

DISCURSIVELY

adv. Argumentatively; in the form of reasoning or argument.

 

DISCURSIVENESS

n.Range or gradation of argument.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DISCURSIVE

Dis *cur "sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. discursif. See Discourse, and cf. Discoursive. ]

 

1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare ] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt.A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

 

2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. Milton. -- Dis *cur "sive *ly, adv. -- Dis *cur "sive *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

discursive

dis cur sive |disˈkərsiv dɪsˈkɜːrsɪv | ▶adjective 1 digressing from subject to subject: students often write dull, secondhand, discursive prose. • (of a style of speech or writing ) fluent and expansive rather than formulaic or abbreviated: the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive. 2 of or relating to discourse or modes of discourse: the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another. 3 Philosophy, archaic proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition. DERIVATIVES dis cur sive ly adverb, dis cur sive ness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro, ’ from the verb discurrere (see discourse ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

discursive

discursive |dɪsˈkəːsɪv | ▶adjective 1 digressing from subject to subject: students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose. • (of a style of speech or writing ) fluent and expansive: the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive. 2 relating to discourse or modes of discourse: the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another. 3 Philosophy, archaic proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition. DERIVATIVES discursively adverb, discursiveness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro ’, from the verb discurrere (see discourse ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

discursive

discursive adjective 1 dull, discursive prose: rambling, digressive, meandering, wandering, maundering, diffuse, long, lengthy, wordy, verbose, long-winded, prolix; circuitous, roundabout, circumlocutory; informal waffly. ANTONYMS concise. 2 an elegant discursive style: fluent, flowing, fluid, eloquent, expansive. ANTONYMS terse.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

discursive

discursive adjective 1 dull, discursive prose: rambling, digressive, meandering, wandering, maundering, diffuse, long, lengthy; circuitous, roundabout, circumlocutory, periphrastic; verbose, long-winded, prolix; informal wordy; Brit. informal waffly; rare pleonastic, logorrhoeic, ambagious. ANTONYMS concise. 2 an elegant piece of work combining sound judgement with an excellent discursive style: fluent, flowing, fluid, eloquent, articulate, elegant, expansive. ANTONYMS terse.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

discursive

dis cur sive /dɪskə́ː r sɪv /形容詞 ｟かたく ｠〈文章 文体などが 〉散漫な, 多方面にわたる, とりとめのない .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞