digressional
English
editEtymology
editdigression + -al
Adjective
editdigressional (comparative more digressional, superlative most digressional)
- Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- 1785, Thomas Warton, Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin by John Milton:
- Milton has judiciously avoided Fletcher's digressional ornaments
References
edit“digressional”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.