digressed

Meanings

• Verb

  Wandered away from the main topic or course; deviated or digressed.

  - "During the meeting, the speaker digressed and discussed unrelated topics."
  - "The student's essay digressed from the original thesis and lacked focus."

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Synonyms

sidetrack

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with digressed
progressed , addressed , assessed

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Variants

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digress , digressed , digresses , digressing

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Etymology

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From the Latin 'dis-' meaning 'apart' and 'gradi' meaning 'go,' digressed means 'to go apart from the main topic' or 'to deviate'.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'digression' has been used in literature since ancient times, with examples found in the works of Plato and Cicero.

2. The word 'digressed' is sometimes used in a positive context to describe an interesting or entertaining aside or tangent from the main topic.

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Related Concepts

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1. Deviation: The act of straying from a normal or expected course.

2. Distraction: Something that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else.

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Quotes

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1. The third visit, the first one after I started the drugs, is shorter, more perfunctory than the first two. Papakostas moves briskly from one question to the next and looks at his watch if we "digress".

   - Gary Greenberg,{it}Harper's{/it},May 2007

2. Coleridge, of course, who happily called himself a … lover of parentheses, does not bridle himself, but merely produces digressions about how he should not "digress".

   - James Wood,{it}New Republic{/it},6 Sept. 1999

3. He had not written too much per se; he had "digressed" intolerably given the significance of the events under consideration.

   - Alain de Botton,{it}How Proust Can Change Your Life{/it},1997

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How to Memorize "digressed"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize the act of straying from a topic or path. Imagine a person wandering off the beaten path or a conversation veering off topic.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'digressed' with the idea of straying from a topic or path. Remember the Latin roots of the word to help remember its meaning.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic phrase like 'Digress means to wander from the main topic' or 'Dis-gress means to go apart from the topic'.

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