Rambling

//ˈɹæm.blɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.

    "[…] listening with great interest to Martha's ramblings about "The War.""

  2. 2
    A gentle hike.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of ramble form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
  2. 2
    Confused and irregular; awkward.

    "Except that the house had an immensely large rambling loft at top, I made no other discoveries."

  3. 3
    Winding irregularly in various directions.

    "A long somewhat rambling branch, avoiding the places most likely to supply it with traffic, but not the centres of scenic interest, began at Letterkenny and reached the sea at Burtonport."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of a path e.g. wordnet
  2. 2
    (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects wordnet
  3. 3
    spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
desultorydigressivemeanderingstragglingaberrancyaberrant

Example

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"Sarah gets very bored listening to her grandparents rambling on about old times."

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rambling rose

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