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Definition of Digress
1. Verb. Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking. "Don't digress when you give a lecture"
Generic synonyms: Tell
Derivative terms: Digression, Digression, Digressive, Divagation, Divagation
2. Verb. Wander from a direct or straight course.
Generic synonyms: Deviate, Divert
Derivative terms: Digression, Straggle, Straggler
Definition of Digress
1. v. i. 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.
2. n. Digression.
Definition of Digress
1. Verb. (intransitive) : 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. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) : To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Digress
1. to stray from the main topic [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digress
Literary usage of Digress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"Let me digress a little, to enter a protest against the use of double-lined paper
after the first year of a pupil's school life, and to express my belief ..."
2. Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris (1901)
"... CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST I digress, but I Return to the Columbus Engagement of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Kean—Their Peculiarities and Their Work. ..."
3. The British Drama: Comprehending the Best Plays in the English Language (1804)
"Yet be wise, too; And, when you are sued to in a noble way, Be neither nice nor
scrupulous. Lyd. All you speak, sir, I hear as oracles ; nor will digress ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1911)
"To digress into a comparison of the brothers is to put the whole parable out of
focus, it is to do something in which we get no help from Jesus, ..."
5. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1829)
"... idque felicitate, ac deorum ¡ml/us quam arla auxilio If, however, I might
digress for a moment, one variety of Inflammation, namely, that of the inner ..."
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