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adj. Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling.

adj. Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition.

adj. Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.

adj. Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

adj. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.

adj. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.

Relating to the understanding, or the active facility of knowing or of forming conclusions; ratiocinative: opposed to intuitive.

Passing rapidly from one subject to another; desultory; rambling; digressional.

Passing over an object, as in running the eye over the parts of a large object of vision.

adj. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition

adj. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects

""It could be on any subject they chose, and the only requirement was that the essay had to be discursive, that is to say, they had to formulate a thesis, develop an argument, defend it, and draw a conclusion," he writes in "Crisis on Campus," a manifesto for overhauling higher education."

logical    indirect   

wandering    discursive judgment    discourse   

roving    digressive    desultory    reasoning    argumentative   

coercive    dispersive    subversive   

deductive    concise    desultory    didactic    circumstantial    analytic    fanciful    reflective    philosophical    fragmentary