Rambling

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              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.
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     2. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
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     3. To extend or grow at random. --Thomson.
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     Syn: To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rambling \Ram"bling\ (r[a^]m"bl[i^]ng), a.
     Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk,
     or building.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rambling
       adj 1: (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}]
       2: of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest
          paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a
          winding country road" [syn: {meandering(a)}, {wandering(a)},
           {winding}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  288 Moby Thesaurus words for "rambling":
     Greek to one, Wanderjahr, 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, 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, wanderlust, wanton, warp, wavering, wavery, wavy,
     wayfaring, wayward, whimsical, wild, winding, wishy-washy,
     wobbling, wobbly, wordy, yaw, zigzag