rambling
adjective
[ ˈramblɪŋ ]
• (of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential.
• "a rambling six-hour speech"
Similar:
long-winded,
garrulous,
verbose,
wordy,
prolix,
digressive,
wandering,
maundering,
roundabout,
circuitous,
diffuse,
discursive,
circumlocutory,
oblique,
periphrastic,
disconnected,
disjointed,
ill-thought-out,
incoherent,
illogical,
• (of a plant) putting out long shoots and growing over walls or other plants.
• "rambling roses"
rambling
noun
• the activity of walking in the countryside for pleasure.
• "a rambling club"
ramble
verb
• walk for pleasure in the countryside.
• "I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing"
Similar:
walk,
take a walk,
go for a walk,
hike,
tramp,
backpack,
trek,
wander,
stroll,
saunter,
amble,
drift,
roam,
range,
rove,
traipse,
jaunt,
stravaig,
mosey,
tootle,
pootle,
vagabond,
perambulate,
peregrinate,
• talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way.
• "Willy rambled on about Norman archways"
Similar:
chatter,
babble,
prattle,
prate,
blather,
blether,
gabble,
jabber,
twitter,
go on,
run on,
rattle on/away,
blither,
maunder,
drivel,
jaw,
gas,
gab,
yak,
yackety-yak,
yabber,
yatter,
shoot one's mouth off,
witter,
rabbit,
chunter,
natter,
waffle,
run off at the mouth,
mag,
twaddle,
clack,
twattle,
• (of a plant) put out long shoots and grow over walls or other plants.
• "roses climbed, rambled, hung over walls"
Origin:
late Middle English (in ramble (sense 2 of the verb)): probably related to Middle Dutch rammelen, used of animals in the sense ‘wander about on heat’, also to the noun ram.
