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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sprawling, straggling, rambling, stragglyadjective

    spreading out in different directions

    "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"

  2. digressive, discursive, excursive, ramblingadjective

    (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"

  3. meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), windingadjective

    of a path e.g.

    "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

Wiktionary

  1. ramblingnoun

    A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.

  2. ramblingnoun

    A gentle hike.

Wikipedia

  1. rambling

    Walking is one of the most popular outdoor recreational activities in the United Kingdom, and within England and Wales there is a comprehensive network of rights of way that permits access to the countryside. Furthermore, access to much uncultivated and unenclosed land has opened up since the enactment of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. In Scotland the ancient tradition of universal access to land was formally codified under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. In Northern Ireland, however, there are few rights of way, or other access to land. Walking is used in the United Kingdom to describe a range of activity, from a walk in the park to trekking in the Alps. The word "hiking" is used in the UK, but less often than walking; the word rambling (akin to roam) is also used, and the main organisation that supports walking is called The Ramblers. Walking in mountainous areas in the UK is called hillwalking, or in Northern England, including the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, fellwalking, from the dialect word fell for high, uncultivated land. Mountain walking can sometimes involve scrambling.

ChatGPT

  1. rambling

    Rambling refers to talking or writing at length in a confused or inconsequential way, often straying from one topic to another without any particular direction or point. It can also refer to an act of walking or traveling leisurely without a specific route or purpose.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rambling

    of Ramble

  2. Ramblingadjective

    roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rambling in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rambling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of rambling in a Sentence

  1. Scott C. Holstad:

    Sure, I’ve written about women and sex and madhouses, just like Bukowski did, but I’ve also written about many other topics, often utilizing other stylistic methods in doing so. Bukowski would probably have been annoyed with the rambling tone of my poems in Cells.

  2. Dick Durbin:

    President Trumps recorded conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger is more than a pathetic, rambling, delusional rant, his disgraceful effort to intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting the legally confirmed vote totals in his state strikes at the heart of our democracy and merits nothing less than a criminal investigation.

  3. Barry Drexler:

    It's not just what you say, but how you say it, as soon as you start rambling and get nervous, you are giving it life and bringing attention to it.

  4. Billy Madison:

    Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

  5. Muharrem Ince:

    In recent days, as Tarzan has faced trouble, he's been rambling, we know he doesn't have a university diploma, but I'm wondering if he even has a middle school one.

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