Crossword-Solution: DISCURSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discursive | a. | Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. |
| Discursive | a. | Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “DISCURSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| moving from topic to topic without order | 1 answer |
| Wandering from subject to subject | 1 answer |
| expatiating | 3 answers |
| A POSTERIORI | 3 answers |
| A PRIORI | 7 answers |
| inferential | 7 answers |
| digressive | 7 answers |
| Bull session | 9 answers |
| episodic | 9 answers |
| Repetitious | 10 answers |
| BRIEF (ant.) | 11 answers |
| circuitous | 14 answers |
| inductive | 15 answers |
| dialectic | 16 answers |
| Fluent | 24 answers |
| Extended | 27 answers |
| ALL over the place | 40 answers |
| "Epic!" | 41 answers |
| Copious | 57 answers |
| Indirect | 57 answers |
| eristic | 58 answers |
| disjointed | 58 answers |
| DIFFUSE ___ | 63 answers |
| turning | 64 answers |
| Incoherent | 65 answers |
| Wordy | 68 answers |
| Prolix | 69 answers |
| disconnected | 72 answers |
| Bombastic | 72 answers |
| Arguing | 72 answers |
| argumentative | 74 answers |
| Rambling | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DISCURSIVE (5)
Doubtless, when a man finds himself united to a garrulous wife, he naturally learns to hold his tongue; but sometimes, at the close of one of Blanche’s discursive monologues, on glancing at her husband just to see how he took it, and seeing him sit perfectly silent, with a fixed, inexpressive smile, Bernard said to himself that Gordon found the lesson of listening attended with some embarrassments.
Concerning our Priests It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space.
The most emphasized and most vitalized idea, the idea which glints forth everywhere in his poetry, which has the most important bearing on man’s higher life, and which marks the height of the spiritual tide reached in his poetry, is, that the highest order of manhood is a well-poised, harmoniously operating duality of the active or intellectual or discursive, and the passive or spiritually sensitive.
Miss Mellins, stimulated by the excitement of the occasion, grew more and more discursive, and her ceaseless talk, and the kaleidoscopic whirl of the crowd, were unspeakably bewildering to Ann Eliza.
She was already a little prepared by her discursive reading and discussion under the Widgett influence for ideas and “movements,” though temperamentally perhaps she was rather disposed to resist and criticise than embrace them.
Quotes with DISCURSIVE (3)
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put into question is precisely the quest for a rightful beginning, an absolute point of departure, a principal responsibility. The problematic of writing is opened by putting into question the value of the arkhe. What I will propose here will not be elaborated simply as a philosophical discourse, operating according to principles, postulates, axioms, or definitions, and…
Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1985).