Discursive Dis Kuhr Siv Adjective Jumping Topic Rambling Proceeding Logically

adjective:

1. Jumping from topic to topic; rambling.

2. Proceeding logically, using reason or argument rather than emotion.

[From Latin discurrere (to run about), from dis- (apart) + currere (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kers- (to run), which is also the source of car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, succor, and caricature. Earliest documented use: 1599.]

"The book is discursive, gently meandering down the River Thames."

Three Men In A Boat; Northern Echo (Darlington, UK); Sep 20, 2012.

"Obama's penchant for discursive explanations has bothered no constituency more than his base, whose members see in his sometimes professorial tone a lack of passion for the cause at hand." - Scott Wilson; In Arguing for Firearms Restrictions, Obama Points to Constitution; The Washington Post; Jan 17, 2013.