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Rambling   /rˈæmblɪŋ/  /rˈæmbəlɪŋ/   Listen
Rambling

adjective
1.
Spreading out in different directions.  Synonyms: sprawling, straggling, straggly.  "Straggling branches" , "Straggly hair"
2.
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.  Synonyms: digressive, discursive, excursive.  "A rambling discursive book" , "His excursive remarks" , "A rambling speech about this and that"
3.
Of a path e.g..  Synonyms: meandering, wandering, winding.  "Rambling forest paths" , "The river followed its wandering course" , "A winding country road"



Ramble

verb
(past & past part. rambled; pres. part. rambling)
1.
Continue talking or writing in a desultory manner.  Synonyms: jog, ramble on.
2.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: cast, drift, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander.  "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"



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"Rambling" Quotes from Famous Books



... of these themes," I remarked, after a long rambling talk, half reverie, half reason, "that language conceals the ideas, or, rather, the imaginations they evolve; for the word idea implies something more tangible than vagaries which the Greek poet would have called 'the dream of the shadow of smoke.' But yet more unsatisfactory than ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 57, July, 1862 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... down in a chair before the fire, and fell into a train of rambling meditations. First he thought of his friends, and wondered when they would join him; then his mind reverted to Mrs. Martha Bardell; and from that lady it wandered, by a natural process, to the dingy counting-house of ...
— Bardell v. Pickwick • Percy Fitzgerald

... and hot, and the fussy little river rambling through the Long Meadow was talking in ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock

... treasures which he brought home from the sacking of the capital of Armenia. The fruit of the gean-tree is rather harsh till fully ripe, and then becomes somewhat vapid and watery, yet it is very grateful to the palate after a day's rambling in the woods; and, moreover, this wild stock is the source whence we have, by culture, obtained the rich varieties which now grace our gardens. The cherry is a very prolific tree. We have heard of one, the fruit of which sold for ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 - Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 • Various

... Mr. George. "Perhaps we shall not have time. I may think it is best to spend the time in rambling about among the mountains and glaciers near the head of the valley, where I believe is to be found the most ...
— Rollo in Switzerland • Jacob Abbott


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