Deviant vs Digressive - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between deviant and digressive

is that deviant is deviant while digressive is marked by digression; rambling.

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.

At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.

(en noun)

A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.

He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.

A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.

As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant .

* Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----

(en adjective)

Marked by digression; rambling

* digressiveness