rambling

/ˈɹæm.blɪŋ/

adj 3noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

done, hard, known, large, long, old, old, popular

VERB + RAMBLING

go, going, heard, kept, know, let's, likes, stop

RAMBLING + NOUN

discourse, it's, loft, lot, stories, things, weekend, words

PREP.

about, on

ADV.

entirely, immensely, often, somewhat

Definitions

adj

Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.

Confused and irregular; awkward.

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

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.

noun

A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.

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

A gentle hike.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — of a path e.g.

winding

adjective — (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main

adjective — spreading out in different directions or distributed irregul

sprawling
straggling
straggly

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

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

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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