Synonyms for Rambling

Synonyms for "rambling" (372 found)

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Closest matches (75)

aberrancy aberrant aberration aberrative adrift afloatafoot and lightheartedaimless aimlessness alternating ambagious ambiguous amorphous babbling bendbeyond understandingbiasbranching offbroken bumming

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Adjective(8 words)

academic incoherenceaddled branchychaotic talkclear incoherencecompact prosedigressivedisconnected parts

Noun(7 words)

chattiness circuitous dawdling descanting digress digressing disconnecting

Verb(1 words)

digressed

Strong matches (111)

discontinuous discursion discursive discursiveness disjointed disorganized distracted distrait distraught divagation divagatory divarication divergence diversion dizzy dogleg double drift drifting eccentric

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Noun(9 words)

discourse discursivedisorganized thinkingdriftdrone ongab gabbling gibbering jabbering

Adjective(14 words)

discursivedisjointed farmingdisjointed topicsdisorganized contentdisorganized educationdisorganized guidedisorganized lessondisorganized slide deckdisorganized writingexcursiveincoherent deliveryincoherent taskslengthy loquacious

Verb(2 words)

gibbered maundered

Related words (186)

maundering mazy meandering mercurial migrational migratory moody muddled nomad nomadic nomadism nonuniform numinous obliquity offout-of-the-waypast comprehensionpatchy pedestrian peregrination

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pererration peripatetic periphrastic planetary prolix purposeless ramble ranging ranting raving restless roam roaming rough roundabout rove roving scatterbrained scrambled scrappy serpentine shapeless sheer shift shiftingshifting courseshifting pathshifty shuffling skew slant snaky snatchy spasmatic spasmic spasmodic spastic spineless sporadic spotty sprawlingspread outspreading 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 unstableunstable as waterunstaid 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 windingwishy washywishy-washy wobbling wobbly wordy yaw zigzag

Noun(17 words)

meander meandering monologue moseying narrative prattle prattler prattling rabbiting ramble roam run-on trampingverbal incoherenceverbose wander wordy

Adjective(19 words)

meanderingpoor articulationpoor coherencepronounced incoherencesprawling straggling stragglyunclear writingunconnected elementsunfocused discussionunorganized termsunstructured essayunstructured narrationunstructured phrasingunstructured systemunstructured talkwandering winding windy

Verb(2 words)

sauntering twaddled

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

8 entries

communicationcommunication styledescriptive adjectivediscourse move speech travel writing

More specific

14 entries

circuitous traildigressiondisorganized essaydriftlong winded speechmeandermeandering essaymeandering roadmonologuerambling lectureverbose paragraphwinding pathwordy paragraphzigzagging route

Collocations

14 entries

ramble aboutramble aimlesslyramble onramble on aboutramble throughrambling essayrambling narrativerambling notesrambling paragraphrambling pathrambling proserambling roadrambling speechrambling text

Inflections

5 entries

ambled amblesmore ramblingmost ramblingramblings

Derivations

8 entries

ambled ambles ramble rambler ramblers ramblingly ramblingness ramblings

similar

2 entries

indirect untidy

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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

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I'm just rambling.

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You're rambling.

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I know I'm rambling.

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Rambling