rambling
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rambling
- /ˈɹæm.blɪŋ/ UK, US
Rhymes with -æmblɪŋ
verb
- present participle and gerund of ramble
adjective
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Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
Similar: desultory
- Confused and irregular; awkward. Except that the house had an immensely large rambling loft at top, I made no other discoveries.
- Winding irregularly in various directions. A long somewhat rambling branch, avoiding the places most likely to supply it with traffic, but not the centres of scenic interest, began at Letterkenny and reached the sea at Burtonport.
noun ramblings
- A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction. […] listening with great interest to Martha's ramblings about "The War."
- A gentle hike.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: digressive, discursive, excursive, indirect, wandering, meandering, winding, vast, wide, rambly, ramblesome, alieniloquent, sinuous, meandry, meandery, rigmarolish
Translations
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adj long and digressing of a speech
| Español | que se va por tangentes, inconexo, errante, incoherente |
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| Deutsch | langatmig, weitschweifend, abschweifend, palavernd |
noun meandering talk
| Español | divagación, perorata, monserga |
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| 中文 | 漫无边际的讲话 |
| Deutsch | Palaver, Gerede, Geschwafel, Sermon, Weitschweifigkeit |
| Italiano | sproloquio |
| Ελληνικά | ασυνάρτητος λόγος asynártitos lógos |
noun gentle hiking
| Deutsch | Wandern, Herumziehen, Spaziergang, Spazierengehen |
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| Ελληνικά | περίπατος perípatos |
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title = {rambling},
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