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

  • (the rambling is about WIPs and side projects and the weird thing going on with my writing right now)

    Rambling Digression #2 kateelliott 2007

  • 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.

    An Unequal Progress in Accuracy 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Some Incidental Information 2008

  • 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.

    More on the Media (Sorry) 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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