à¦à¦ªà§à¦°à¦¾à¦¸à¦à§à¦à¦¿à¦ irrelevant, impertinent, incoherent, discursive, out of place, inapposite à¦¬à§à¦¦à§à¦§à¦¿à¦à¦¤ intellectual, discursive à¦¤à¦°à§à¦à¦¦à§à¦¬à¦¾à¦°à¦¾ à¦²à¦­à§à¦¯ discursive à¦à¦²à§à¦¾à¦à§à¦²à§à¦¾ random, haphazard, promiscuous, ungainly, aimless, discursive à¦¶à§à¦à§à¦à¦²à¦¾à¦¹à§à¦¨ discursive, undisciplined. digressing from subject to subject. \\"students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose\\" synonyms: rambling, digressive, meandering, wandering, maundering, diffuse, long, lengthy; circuitous, roundabout, circumlocutory, periphrastic; verbose, long-winded, prolix; informal wordy; Definition of Discursive talking or writing about many different things in an unorganized manner Examples of Discursive in a sentence When the writer was drunk, he often talked for hours in a discursive manner. The professor\\'s lecture was hard to follow because of its discursive tone. Confused by the question, the politician gave only a discursive response to the reporter. Although I paid a great deal of attention to the debate, the discursive dialogue really confused me. Because he was nervous during his speech, the young boy lost his train of thought and began to speak in a discursive way. The mentally ill suspect was discursive when asked about his whereabouts on the night of the murder. As a law student, you should be prepared for a series of discursive questions on legal ethics. The author\\'s writing style was discursive and hard to comprehend. Even though Joanna was normally a very organized person, she made a discursive speech during the graduation ceremony. When Harry spoke in that discursive style of his, he went from topic to topic but made little sense. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point Many readers find it tough to read Moby Dick since the author is discursive, often cutting the action short to spend 20 pages on the history of a whale. (adj.) passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic rambling, moving from one topic to another randomly rambling, lacking order (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects wandering from one topic to another digressing from subject to subject (adj.) rambling, lacking order