Synonyms for digress
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Definitions
- v. 1
To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
- v. 2
To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
Related words
- Word family
- digression digressive
Forms
- Past participle
- digressed
e.g. digressed → strayed, rambled, wandered, diverged…
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di, apart, and vergo, incline, tend) is to turn from a course previously followed or that something else follows, and has no unfavorable implication; to digress (L.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- wander You had better not wander around here by yourself.
- ramble I tend to ramble, so stop me if I go off on a tangent.
By length
- 5 letters
- stray1
- 6 letters
- wander2, depart2, swerve1, ramble2
- 7 letters
- deviate3, diverge2
- 8 letters
- straggle2, divagate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (wander2 = 2 syllables).
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