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[ ram-bling ] / ˈræm blɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR rambling ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveaimlessly wandering. taking an irregular course; straggling: a rambling brook. spread out irregularly in various directions: a rambling mansion. straying from one subject to another; desultory: a rambling novel. Origin of ramblingFirst recorded in 1615–25; ramble + -ing2 SYNONYMS FOR ramblingSEE SYNONYMS FOR rambling ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM ramblingram·bling·ly, adverbram·bling·ness, nounun·ram·bling, adjectiveWords nearby ramblingRambert, rambla, ramble, ramble on, rambler, rambling, Rambo, Ramboesque, Rambouillet, rambunctious, rambutan Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ramblingIn rambling posts, he called himself a loser, and wrote that he must be either bipolar or a psychopath. School Shooters Love This Pickup Artist Website|Brandy Zadrozny|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST The rocker posted a rambling video on his Facebook page claiming he's broke and penniless. Creed Singer Scott Stapp’s Fall From Grace: From 40 Million Albums Sold to Living in a Holiday Inn|Marlow Stern|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST After about one minute of rambling, a woman runs up on stage and directs someone to turn his microphone off. White Supremacist Runs For Senate in Kentucky|Olivia Nuzzi|September 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST 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. Fear And Self-Loathing In Scandinavia: The Fiction Of Karl Ove Knausgaard|Ted Gioia|May 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yet the show has gotten a deal of negative criticism for being inchoate, unselective, too rambling, and uneven. A New Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum Puts a Modern Face on Chinese Art|Melik Kaylan|January 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST Again were delayed by the rambling of the horses until nearly noon, when we travelled along the road towards Fowler's Bay. Explorations in Australia|John Forrest The rambling thoughts in Dawson's brain slid off into oblivion. Dave Dawson on the Russian Front|R. Sidney Bowen Trench listened; the sound of the voice, high pitched and rambling, told him nothing. The Four Feathers|A. E. W. Mason Every holiday was devoted to rambling about the country near London. More Pages from a Journal|Mark Rutherford Lizzie laid down the powder-puff she was using and bent lower over the rambling speaker. The Cottage of Delight|Will N. Harben
British Dictionary definitions for rambling
adjectivestraggling or sprawling haphazardly; unplanneda rambling old house (of speech or writing) lacking a coherent plan; diffuse and disconnected (of a plant, esp a rose) profusely climbing and straggling nomadic; wandering Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to ramblingdisjointed, circuitous, long-winded, incoherent, diffuse, confused, covering, spreading, scattered, trailing, strewn, straggling, desultory, digressive, discursive, incongruous, irregular, prolix, periphrastic, gangling |