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rambling

verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɹæm.blɪŋ//

Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of ramblepresent participle and gerund of ramble

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.

  2. 2

    Confused and irregular; awkward.

    Except that the house had an immensely large rambling loft at top, I made no other discoveries.

  3. 3

    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

  1. 1

    A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.

    […] listening with great interest to Martha's ramblings about "The War."

  2. 2

    A gentle hike.

Forms

plural
ramblings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).