Digressive

[adj] (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"
[adj] of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"

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Synonyms

discursive, excursive, indirect, irrelevant, rambling, tangential

Related Terms

aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand, backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic, errant, erratic, excurs