Discursive vs Circuitous - What's the difference?
discursive | circuitous |
(of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
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(philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
Not direct or to the point.
Of a long and winding route.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
As adjectives the difference between discursive and circuitous
is that discursive is (of speech or writing) tending to digress from the main point; rambling while circuitous is not direct or to the point.discursive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.
