Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or consisting in digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to, or having the character of, a
digression ; departing from the mainpurpose orsubject .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
digression + -al
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Examples
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But worker's wages are staggering and you know the dilapidated housing and the digressional school system in cities.
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a very extensive system of distresses arising out of the latest, the eighth of these digressional adventures ....
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