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rambling

[ ram-bling ]

adjective

  1. aimlessly wandering.
  2. taking an irregular course; straggling:

    a rambling brook.

  3. spread out irregularly in various directions:

    a rambling mansion.

  4. straying from one subject to another; desultory:

    a rambling novel.

    Synonyms: discursive



rambling

/ ˈræmblɪŋ /

adjective

  1. straggling or sprawling haphazardly; unplanned

    a rambling old house

  2. (of speech or writing) lacking a coherent plan; diffuse and disconnected
  3. (of a plant, esp a rose) profusely climbing and straggling
  4. nomadic; wandering


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Other Words From

  • rambling·ly adverb
  • rambling·ness noun
  • un·rambling adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of rambling1

First recorded in 1615–25; ramble + -ing 2

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Example Sentences

This too has become a full-time thing, where crispy chicken and fried mushrooms are served in the restaurant’s rambling garden on the water.

We took a hike on an obscure, overgrown trail that led pretty much nowhere—just the sort of long, delightful, pointless rambling I like these days.

Cummings sat down across from Pitcher’s desk, but before Pitcher could say anything, Cummings dove into a rambling saga centered in Valdez, Alaska, where he’d lived for more than two decades.

So there is my rant, I dig a bit more into this on my personal blog if you want more of this rambling.

In 1973, Bedford finally completed a rambling unscholarly biography of her former mentor, Aldous Huxley.

Like a Jack in the Box just sprung from coiled captivity, he begins rambling excitedly.

In rambling posts, he called himself a loser, and wrote that he must be either bipolar or a psychopath.

The rocker posted a rambling video on his Facebook page claiming he's broke and penniless.

After about one minute of rambling, a woman runs up on stage and directs someone to turn his microphone off.

If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder.

The modern castle is a massive, rambling, brown-stone building less than a hundred years old, now servingPg 161 as a county court.

Our efforts proved successful and a neat, courteous young woman showed us over the rambling house.

Black Hoof and his braves had a great fear of the girl when she began her rambling talk.

The thoughts chased one another round my brain and back again, all running into one another in their rambling.

They amused themselves by fishing, shooting and rambling about.

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