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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rambling \Ram"bling\ (r[a^]m"bl[i^]ng), a.
Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk,
or building.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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