'Rambling' definitions:
Definition of 'rambling'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly]
adjective
(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" [syn: digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling]
adjective
Of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road" [syn: meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding]
Definition of 'Rambling'
From: GCIDE
- Rambling \Ram"bling\ (r[a^]m"bl[i^]ng), a. Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rambling'
From: GCIDE
- Ramble \Ram"ble\ (r[a^]m"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rambled (r[a^]m"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Rambling (r[a^]m"bl[i^]ng).] [For rammle, fr. Prov. E. rame to roam. Cf. Roam.]
- 1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. [1913 Webster]
- He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind? --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To extend or grow at random. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rambling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberrant,
- aberration,
- aberrative,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- aimless,
- aimlessness,
- alternating,
- ambagious,
- ambiguous,
- amorphous,
- babbling,
- bend,
- beyond understanding,
- bias,
- branching off,
- broken,
- bumming,
- by the way,
- capricious,
- careening,
- catchy,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- choppy,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circumforaneous,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- confused,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- delirious,
- departing,
- departure,
- desultoriness,
- desultory,
- detour,
- deviable,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- deviousness,
- diffuse,
- digression,
- digressive,
- digressiveness,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discursion,
- discursive,
- discursiveness,
- disjointed,
- disorganized,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distraught,
- divagation,
- divagatory,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dizzy,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- eccentric,
- endless,
- episodic,
- errant,
- errantry,
- erratic,
- excursion,
- excursive,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- floating,
- fluctuating,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- frantic,
- freakish,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- giddy,
- Greek to one,
- guttering,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- hairpin,
- halting,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- hoboism,
- illogical,
- immethodical,
- impenetrable,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inarticulate,
- incognizable,
- incoherent,
- incomprehensible,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indirect,
- indirection,
- infirm,
- inscrutable,
- interminable,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- itinerant,
- jerky,
- jumbled,
- labyrinthine,
- landloping,
- lightheaded,
- loose,
- lurching,
- maundering,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- mercurial,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- moody,
- muddled,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nomadism,
- nonuniform,
- numinous,
- obliquity,
- off,
- out-of-the-way,
- past comprehension,
- patchy,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- peripatetic,
- periphrastic,
- planetary,
- prolix,
- ramble,
- ranging,
- ranting,
- raving,
- restless,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rough,
- roundabout,
- rove,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- scrambled,
- scrappy,
- serpentine,
- shapeless,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- skew,
- slant,
- snaky,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spineless,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- sprawling,
- spread out,
- spreading,
- staggering,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- stray,
- straying,
- strolling,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- tortuous,
- traipsing,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- twisting,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unconnected,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undirected,
- undisciplined,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unfathomable,
- unfixed,
- unintelligible,
- unknowable,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpredictable,
- unregular,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unrhythmical,
- unsearchable,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsystematic,
- vacillating,
- vagabond,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- vagrancy,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- variation,
- veer,
- veering,
- verbose,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- Wanderjahr,
- wanderlust,
- wanton,
- warp,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayfaring,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wild,
- winding,
- wishy-washy,
- wobbling,
- wobbly,
- wordy,
- yaw,
- zigzag