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say it: di-SKUR-siv
discursive is an adjective meaning "proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition". It carries 2 recorded senses.
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
“amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things”
“a rambling discursive book”
“his excursive remarks”
“a rambling speech about this and that”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for discursive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.