excursive

excursive
    adj 1: (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" [syn: {digressive}, {discursive}, {excursive},
           {rambling}]
    

Excursive \Ex*cur"sive\, a.
   Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as,
   an excursive fancy.
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         The course of excursive . . . understandings. --I.
                                                  Taylor.
   -- {Ex*cur"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*cur"sive*ness},, n.
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60 Moby Thesaurus words for "excursive":
      O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand,
      backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional,
      departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory,
      devious, digressive, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic,
      errant, erratic, helical, indirect, labyrinthine, left-handed,
      loose, maundering, mazy, meandering, oblique, orbital,
      out-of-the-way, planetary, rambling, rotary, round, roundabout,
      roving, serpentine, shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral,
      snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, undirected,
      vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, zigzag