Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of digressing.
- n. An instance of digressing, especially a written or spoken passage that has no bearing on the main subject.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of digressing; deviation from a regular or appointed course; especially, a departure from the main subject under consideration; an excursion of speech or writing.
- n. Deviation from the path of virtue; transgression.
- n. In astronomy, the angular distance in the ecliptic of the inferior planets Mercury and Venus from the sun.
Wiktionary
- n. A departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
- n. rare A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.
- n. (Anat.), rare The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
- n. a message that departs from the main subject
- n. wandering from the main path of a journey
Examples
“Finally, in what can only be described as a digression from a digression, I feel compelled to mention that there is a multi-purpose, high quality item, within reach theoretically, that I cannot bring myself to buy, though I am convinced of its usefulness and value.”
Asparagus with Morels and an XL Digression, blah-di-blah blah.
“Many novels contain what I call the digression-into-theme.”
“But all this is what they call a digression; it has nothing to do with the dragon's teeth I am now narrating.”
“(Notice how I used "arguably" to avoid digression from the immediate topic - not to avoid actually making a point.) "Now that I've partly diminished my own enjoyment of this by having to explain the humour ...”
“Particularly by that wee digression from the source text (the whole mother not dying thing).”
“And feel free to move this post to the "Open Thread", as it is quite a digression from the original topic.”
“The reason for this historic digression is that Jordan has made an interesting discovery.”
“Warning: all this post is a digression from the topic!”
“It is a blot upon the reputation of the body of Christ, an erroneous and injurious digression from the serious business of making our lives an example to the world.”
“This was already a digression from the paradigm in the field at that time that proteolytic substrates, almost without exception, can be cleared, at least partially, by single proteases with limited, yet defined specificities.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘digression’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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division, passion, decompression, compression, suppression, depression, digression, degression, diversion, aggression, compassion, vision and 1 more...
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Learned words
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ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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AP Rhetorical Devices
asyndeton, aphorism, polysyndeton, characterize, antagonist, antihero, audience, diction, foil, mood, motif, protagonist and 153 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL D
dais, dalliance, dank, daunt, daunting, dawdled, dearth, debacle, debase, debauchery, debilitate, debonair and 141 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT PT #5 (new bk)
inane, scrutinze, attended, testify to, jeopardize, sustain, plentiful, ornate, multifarious, catalogue, anachronistic, extrapolate and 89 more...
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semiotics, behemothic, resplendent, allegiant, visceral, ratiocination, promontory, amaranthine, pharmacopoeia, dichotomy, haematomesis, uxorios and 157 more...
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"Words, words, words."
abase, abject, abstruse, adjutant, altercation, altruistic, angst, anodyne, anomie, ape, apprehensive, aquiline and 310 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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AP Lang Words
AP Lang Terms
chiasmus, cumulative, periodic, periodic sentence, elliptical, negative-positive, ad hominem, red herring, straw man, non sequitur, logos, pathos and 25 more...
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Calvino
Words found in "Six Memos for the Next Millennium"
courser, turn of phrase, encomium, apologia, digression, felicity, mot juste, syntony, focalization, laconic, metrical, impalpable and 17 more...
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