Synonyms for Discursive:

• adj.

  •complex (adjective)
  • meandering,
  • knotted,
  • tangled,
  • inter-woven,
  • round-about,
  • mazy,
  • involved,
  • paradoxical,
  • puzzling.
  •comprehensive (adjective)
  • across board,
  • more all embracing,
  • more containing,
  • all inclusive,
  • more comprising,
  • allinclusive,
  • far-reaching,
  • in-finite,
  • most synoptic,
  • ex-tensive,
  • more all-embracing,
  • most comprising,
  • most all-embracing,
  • most all embracing,
  • the whole shebang,
  • lock stock barrel,
  • more extensive,
  • most wall-to-wall,
  • most encircling,
  • all embracing,
  • most containing,
  • synoptic,
  • global,
  • far reaching,
  • more umbrella,
  • worksest,
  • more synoptic,
  • most allembracing,
  • workser,
  • in finite,
  • ex tensive,
  • more wall-to-wall,
  • more wall to wall,
  • more encircling,
  • allembracing,
  • farreaching,
  • infinite,
  • more allembracing,
  • most umbrella,
  • most wall to wall,
  • wall to wall.
  •diffuse (adjective)
  • long winded,
  • more diffusive,
  • most circumlocutory,
  • most waffling,
  • pro fuse,
  • more circumlocutory,
  • most palaverous,
  • more palaverous,
  • co pious,
  • profuse,
  • most diffusive,
  • more waffling,
  • co-pious,
  • pro-fuse.
  •encyclopedic (adjective)
  • more wideranging,
  • most wide ranging,
  • most thorough going,
  • most thorough-going,
  • thorough-going,
  • more all encompassing,
  • wide ranging,
  • allencompassing,
  • most wideranging,
  • most wide-ranging,
  • more thorough-going,
  • all encompassing,
  • more allencompassing,
  • more thoroughgoing,
  • uni-versal,
  • more wide-ranging,
  • more thorough going,
  • thorough going,
  • uni versal,
  • most allencompassing,
  • most all encompassing,
  • wideranging,
  • more all-encompassing,
  • wide-ranging,
  • more wide ranging,
  • most all-encompassing.
  •episodic (adjective)
  • dis connected,
  • episodic,
  • dis jointed,
  • dis-connected,
  • segmented,
  • most picaresque,
  • dis-jointed,
  • more picaresque,
  • most segmented,
  • more segmented.
  •explanatory (adjective)
  • more exegetical,
  • most annotative,
  • more informing,
  • more justifying,
  • Justifying,
  • in formative,
  • most guiding,
  • ex-positional,
  • most diagrammatic,
  • most declarative,
  • more annotative,
  • ex positional,
  • in-formative,
  • more declarative,
  • most expositional,
  • more elucidatory,
  • in-forming,
  • most elucidatory,
  • most exegetical,
  • more guiding,
  • more expositional,
  • most informing,
  • in forming,
  • supplementary,
  • more diagrammatic,
  • most justifying.
  •hermeneutic (adjective)
  • ex-positive,
  • more hermeneuti,
  • most hermeneuti,
  • ex positive.
  •indirect (adjective)
  • long drawn out,
  • more snaking,
  • most sidelong,
  • most vagrant,
  • under hand,
  • more sidelong,
  • most twisting,
  • more twisting,
  • in direct,
  • implied,
  • most snaking,
  • more vagrant,
  • in-direct,
  • under-hand.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • exegetical,
  • diagrammatic,
  • roundabout,
  • declarative,
  • longwinded,
  • interpretative,
  • Snaking,
  • picaresque,
  • complex,
  • sidelong,
  • Roaming,
  • all-encompassing,
  • palaverous,
  • expositional,
  • whole shebang,
  • in depth,
  • Elucidatory,
  • wall-to-wall,
  • rambling,
  • of great scope,
  • Vagarious,
  • interpretive,
  • explanatory,
  • perambulatory,
  • lock stock and barrel,
  • roving,
  • long way home,
  • across the board,
  • all-embracing,
  • diffusive,
  • encyclopedic,
  • hermeneuti,
  • the works,
  • the big picture,
  • Hermeneutic,
  • circumlocutory,
  • indirect.
  •parenthetic (adjective)
  • de touring,
  • de parting,
  • de-touring,
  • most detouring,
  • most differing,
  • more detouring,
  • detouring,
  • more differing,
  • de-parting.
  •roaming (adjective)
  • more vagarious,
  • most perambulatory,
  • most vagarious,
  • more perambulatory.
  •roundabout (adjective)
  • taking the long way,
  • obliquitous.
  •roving (adjective)
  • peregrine,
  • most peregrine,
  • more peregrine.

• n.

  •
  • articulate,
  • crisp,
  • economical,
  • clean,
  • diffuse.
  •
  • approach.
  •
  • polemic.
  •dianoetic (noun)
  • dianoetic.
  •digressive (noun)
  • digressive.
  •excursive (noun)
  • excursive.
  •logical (noun)
  • logical.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • flowery,
  • turgid,
  • chatty,
  • declamatory,
  • journalistic,
  • eloquent,
  • shakespearean,
  • circuitous,
  • readable,
  • pejorative,
  • slangy,
  • Punchy,
  • gossipy,
  • picturesque,
  • stylistic,
  • ornate,
  • rhetorical,
  • parenthetic,
  • roundly,
  • ponderous,
  • unprintable,
  • sententious,
  • rhetorically,
  • grandiloquent,
  • prolix,
  • inarticulate,
  • euphemistic,
  • wordy,
  • emphatically,
  • lyric,
  • libelous,
  • Worded,
  • epigrammatic,
  • polemical,
  • verbose,
  • conversational.
  •
  • well-turned,
  • parenthetical,
  • portentous,
  • vague,
  • incoherent,
  • emphatic,
  • learned,
  • literary,
  • poetic,
  • idiomatic,
  • elliptical,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • epistolary,
  • lyrical,
  • wandering,
  • informal,
  • fluent,
  • orotund.
  •
  • formal,
  • rough.
  •
  • in.
  •inclusive
  • comprehensive.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • expository,
  • Circumlocutional,
  • snaky,
  • genius,
  • unclear,
  • empty,
  • departing,
  • traveling,
  • tortuous,
  • floating,
  • categorical,
  • muddled,
  • errant,
  • syllogistic,
  • straying,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • indirectly,
  • inferential,
  • evasive,
  • disconnected,
  • Longsome,
  • desultory,
  • sensible,
  • maundering,
  • Digressing,
  • Desultorily,
  • diffusely,
  • zigzag,
  • disputatious,
  • expansively,
  • traipsing,
  • wisdom,
  • rationality,
  • unorganized,
  • understanding,
  • fugitive,
  • erratic,
  • Eristic,
  • synthetic,
  • Discoursive,
  • hypothetical,
  • endless,
  • conception,
  • Soritical,
  • intellectual powers,
  • pleonastic,
  • serpentine,
  • planetary,
  • roadster,
  • rational,
  • knowing,
  • tangentially,
  • locomotive,
  • bootless,
  • ideational,
  • deviant,
  • aberrant,
  • vagrant,
  • winding,
  • Eristical,
  • frothy,
  • controversial,
  • rove,
  • senses,
  • intuition,
  • sociable,
  • incomprehensible,
  • intellect,
  • transient,
  • Longspun,
  • runabout,
  • interlocutory,
  • Faculties,
  • aimless,
  • intelligence,
  • windy,
  • confused,
  • Epagogic,
  • loosely,
  • Largiloquent,
  • reasoning,
  • evasively,
  • lengthy,
  • vagabond,
  • obliquely,
  • meaningless,
  • slightly,
  • footloose and fancy-free,
  • oblique,
  • nomadic,
  • ratiocinative,
  • undirected,
  • consciousness,
  • observation,
  • expansive,
  • vacuous,
  • orbital,
  • devious,
  • labyrinthine,
  • judgment,
  • cursory,
  • spiral,
  • veering,
  • argumentatively,
  • twisting,
  • transitory,
  • purposeless,
  • inductive,
  • directionless,
  • circular,
  • haphazard,
  • dialectical,
  • ability,
  • rotary,
  • drifting,
  • Deviating,
  • Enthymematical,
  • landloping,
  • ranging,
  • reason,
  • Deviatory,
  • mixed-up,
  • Prosing,
  • swerving,
  • stray,
  • intelligent,
  • deductive,
  • Disquisitionary,
  • peripatetic,
  • synthetical,
  • rationalistic,
  • Monadic,
  • wits,
  • conceptive,
  • conceptual,
  • ambulatory,
  • exuberant,
  • nomad,
  • wander,
  • Syllogistical,
  • mind,
  • discursively,
  • skill,
  • shifting,
  • wild,
  • Maieutic,
  • deviative,
  • unintelligible,
  • long-winded,
  • circumlocutionary,
  • unsettled,
  • noetic,
  • Sophic,
  • straggling,
  • instinct,
  • backhanded,
  • Circumforanean,
  • copious,
  • capacity,
  • aberrative,
  • helical,
  • migrational,
  • unconnected,
  • pointless,
  • communicative,
  • migratory,
  • interminable,
  • colloquial,
  • loquacious,
  • sprawling,
  • periphrastic,
  • Conversable,
  • analytical,
  • by the way,
  • Intellectuality,
  • Circumforaneous,
  • wit,
  • intellectual,
  • Transmigratory,
  • protracted,
  • association of ideas,
  • itinerant,
  • jumbled,
  • senseless,
  • footloose,
  • parts,
  • Conversing,
  • Enthymematic,
  • ambagious,
  • disjointed,
  • crab-like,
  • Discursory,
  • loose,
  • Percipience,
  • Strolling,
  • Gadding,
  • scrambled,
  • spreading,
  • reasonable,
  • dialectic,
  • roam,
  • Brains,
  • irrational,
  • intellection,
  • conditional,
  • sane,
  • disorganized,
  • round,
  • turning,
  • argumentative,
  • bright,
  • buggy,
  • Flitting,
  • flatulent,
  • analytic,
  • strong-minded,
  • tangential.

Antonyms for Discursive:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    direct, consistent, illogical, undeviating, unlogical, logical, coherent, straightforward, focused.

Homophones for Discursive:

• digger wasp, digressive, discharge pipe, degressive.