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rambling   (TTS Sound)

The verb ramble has 2 senses

• ramble on, ramble, jog -- (continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; "This novel rambles on and jogs")


• roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond -- (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "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")

The adj rambling has 3 senses

• sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly -- (spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair")


• digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling -- ((of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that")


• meandering, rambling, wandering, winding -- (of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road")