Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Often or habitually roaming; wandering.
- adjective Extended over an irregular area; sprawling.
- adjective Lengthy and digressive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of wandering about, or from place to place.
- noun A roving excursion or course; an indefinite or whimsical turning back and forth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Roving; wandering; discursive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
ramble . - noun A long
meandering talk with no specific topic or direction. - noun A
gentle hike .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective spreading out in different directions
- adjective (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
- adjective of a path e.g.
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Examples
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(the rambling is about WIPs and side projects and the weird thing going on with my writing right now)
Rambling Digression #2 kateelliott 2007
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Anyway the point of all this rambling is that I am sure there was a fairly heavy crimp on the Gameking as that is how I remember we used to load them.
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Anyway nor sense in rambling on something I have no control over.
Was it Oscar Night? Who Cares? - 80th Annual Award Winners! | Fused Film 2008
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The point of all this rambling is that given choices and opportunities your kid might become a more enthusiastic and capable outdoorsman than you.
Youth Sports 2008
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If this rambling is representative of your logic, I can only infer that your long amatuer boxing career involved taking a lot of blows to the head.
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At any rate, the real point of all this rambling is that other governments (including the Europeans) fed their people a line about now they would be choosing their rulers, and that was swell.
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This self indulgent rambling is intended to explain why I have the following precise recorded version of my first, long ago root beer dream.
Root Beer Dreams: Part I Lindy 2006
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This self indulgent rambling is intended to explain why I have the following precise recorded version of my first, long ago root beer dream.
Toast: Lindy 2006
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The room is trashed, bench desks turned on their sides, papers littering the floor, the chalkboard covered in rambling grafitti.
The Strike Ends? Zach Center 2006
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The room is trashed, bench desks turned on their sides, papers littering the floor, the chalkboard covered in rambling grafitti.
Archive 2006-03-01 Zach Center 2006
dinkum commented on the word rambling
WORD: rambling
EXAMPLE:
' This rambling introduction is four times as long as the most efficient, effective piece of writing in the history of the English-speaking world, which was Abraham Lincoln's address on the battlefield at Gettysburg. '
1999 KURT VONNEGUT. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian. "Introduction" (Page 16).
September 9, 2013